Bowker Biography:
Cora Holmes

Cora Holmes lives in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The tundra and sea she writes about have been her home for twenty-six years.

She grew up in Idaho where her family moved frequently in the impoverished post WW11 years. She turned to books for friends who didn't change with the logging towns and country schools, sharing Jane Erye’s loneliness and suffering the Civil War with Scarlett O'Hara. By age eighteen she was a hopeless romantic.

Childhood poverty convinced her to learn a skill to support her no matter where she lived. Following high school she became a registered nurse specializing in neonatal intensive care. This education surfaces in her books as realistic portrayals of human drama and love evolving from adversity.

Her writing career began in 1985 with an article to Alaska magazine, ‘Living On An Aleutian Sheep Ranch’, reprinted in ‘100 Tales Of Survival And Adventure On The Last Frontier’, published by Lyon's Press in 2003.

In 1989 she began writing for Reiman Publications Country magazine. In 1994 and 1997 her ranch life stories became two books, ‘Good-Bye, Boise…Hello, Alaska’, and ‘“Dear Cora…”’, selling over one hundred thousand copies. More stories were featured in a Reiman Publications twentieth anniversary book, ‘Best Of Country’ in 2006.

Aleutian legends fascinate her. Her legend story, ‘Another Ghost At Chernofski’, appeared in Alaska Magazine’s October 1997 issue. Her first novel, ‘Outside Man’, explores mummy and outcast legends passed down through generations of Aleuts.

 

 

Email: chernofskighost@yahoo.com
Web:  www.coraholmes.com
Address:  Legend Books
Box 890
Unalaska, Alaska 99685