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Richard Dauenhauer

Richard Dauenhauer is widely recognized as a translator, and several hundred of his translations of poetry from German, Russian, Classical Greek, Swedish, Finnish, and other languages have appeared in a range of journals and little magazines since 1963. He holds degrees in Slavic Languages, German, and Comparative Literature. He has taught at Alaska Methodist University and Alaska Pacific University, and part time at the University of Alaska Southeast. He has served as Director of Language and Cultural Studies at Sealaska Heritage and Foundation and as President’s Professor of Alaska Native Languages and Culture at UAS. In 1980 he was named Humanist of the Year by the Alaska Humanities Forum. From 1981 to 1988 he served as the seventh Poet Laureate of Alaska. In 1989 he received an Alaska State Governor’s Award for the Arts. In 1991 he was a winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He is married to Nora Marks Dauenhauer, lives in Juneau, and works as a free-lance writer and consultant in addition to his teaching.