Christine Byl
Writer in Interior Alaska
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 Links to Work Online                               Read a Dirt Work Excerpt                         Interviews                           

"Letter to America: Pledge"
Terrain.org, July 22, 2022

"Wrack Line"
Terrain.org, Jan. 2021

"Stand for Being Heard"
Northern Center, Nov. 2018

"Smelling North"
Alaska Dispatch News, 2017

"Investigating Emily"
49 Writers Blog, Nov 2017

"Thanks & Giving for the Arts"

49 Writers Blog, Nov 2017

"What Shall I Read Next?"
49 Writers Blog, Nov 2017

"Bear Fragments" 
Brevity Magazine, March 2016

"Eva Endures" A Tribute to Eva Saulitis
Beacon Broadside, Feb 2016

Crane, Water, Change: A Migratory Essay
Denali National Park Climate Anthology, Oct 2015 (Listen to excerpts here.)

Un-renaming Denali
Beacon Broadside, Sept 2015

"Shelf Promotion: Trading Commerce for Art"
Beacon Broadside, Oct 2014

"Hire Education" National Parks Conservation Association Magazine, Spring 2014

"Dog Years" National Parks Conservation Association Magazine, Spring 2013

"On Re-reading" 49 Writers Blog, February 2013

"The Line and the Circle" 49 Writers Blog, February 2013

"No Muse is Good Muse" 49 Writers Blog, February 2013

"Someone's Got to Stay Outside" 49 Writers Blog, February 2013

"Hunkered at the Gateway" National Parks Conservation Association Magazine, Winter 2012

"Innard Mongolia" The Cleanest Line, Patagonia Blog, Oct. 2007

​ Book Reviews (Others)

"Far Flung" by Cassandra Kircher (Brevity)

The Lexicon of Labor (Women's Review of Books)


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        Pieces About Dirt Work
Traildog Log: Field Notes from Interior Trails

Tools Make the Woman: Adventure-Inspired,       Oct 2013

“Lucky Girls”: Tales of A Mountain Mama, April   2013

“Wolf Sightings in the Wild” Book Excerpt, Hike Bike Travel Blog, April 2013

“Backseat of the Ford” Book Excerpt, The Cleanest Line; Patagonia's Blog, April 2013

“The Long Haul” Half Past Done Blog, April 2013

“Tired Comparisons” The Campsite Blog, April 2013

"Feisty Mountain Crew" Book excerpt, Women's News, April 2013
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“5 Lessons from the Trail” Books for Better Living Blog, April 2013




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Ask A Local: Healy, AK 
   The Common, Dec 2014
Interview 
   Missoula Independent, Oct 2013

Interview 
   Whitefish Review, August 2013

Interview 
   49 Writers Blog, April 2013 w/ Leslie Hsu Oh
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​               Anthologies
The Best Of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
    "Bear Fragments"

When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers
    "Crane, Water, Change: A Migratory Essay"

Glacier National Park Reader
   Excerpt from Dirt Work

​Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook
   "Hey Jess McCafferty" (Short Story)

Sudden Flash Youth

   "Hey Jess McCafferty" (Short Story)
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Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska
   "Xtra Tuf" and "Soul Food" (Essays)

Permanent Vacation: Twenty Writers on Work and Life in Our National Parks
    "Hunkered at the Gateway" (Essay)

A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild
​     "Dirt" (Essay)
Projects I Love
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Broadsided Press 
Putting Literature and Art on the Streets

49 Writers 
Blog By and For Alaska Writers and Beyond

Orion Nature/Culture/Place

Terrain A Journal of Built & Natural Environments

PEN America Protecting Free and VIbrant Speech

VIDA Women in Literary Arts

​Outdoor Afro
Where Black People & Nature Meet


Gabe Travis Fine Art 
Collage Commissions and Notecards

Denali Citizens Council
Advocating for Denali's Wildlife, Wilderness & Way of Life

Beacon Broadside 
Ideas, opinions, and personal essays from Beacon Press

Fishtrap 
Writing & Thinking About the West
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