Ann Fox Chandonnet

Ann Fox Chandonnet
Chandonnet at the top of the Chestnut Ridge trail in South Mountains State Park in North Carolina
Born	Ann Alicia Fox (1943-02-07) February 7, 1943 (age 81) Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Poet journalist book reviewer culinary historian
Education	Dracut High School Lowell State College (BS) University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA)
Spouse	Fernand Leonce Chandonnet ​ ​ (m. 1966)​
Children	2
Parents	Leighton Dinsmore Fox Barbara Amelia (Cloutman) Curran

Ann Fox Chandonnet, born Ann Alicia Fox, is an American poet, journalist, book reviewer, and culinary historian.[1][2]

Biography

Ann Alicia Fox was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on February 7, 1943[3][4][5][6] to Leighton Dinsmore Fox and Barbara Amelia (Cloutman) Curran.[7] She grew up on a dairy farm in Dracut, Massachusetts[8][9] and she graduated from Dracut High School, magna cum laude from Lowell State College in 1964 with a B.S. in Secondary Education and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965 with an M.A. in English Literature.[3][9][10][11] She married Fernand “Fern” Leonce Chandonnet in 1966[12] and they have two sons, Yves and Alexandre.[3] She has lived in Chugiak, Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Vale, North Carolina,[13] and O'Fallon, Missouri.[2]

Her poems have appeared in anthologies and various magazines, including Permafrost, Ice Floe, Abraxas, New Kauri, MidAtlantic and Calapooya Collage. Her articles on food history have appeared in Early American Life magazine.[14] She also had a food column in Alaska magazine.[14][15]

Chandonnet worked as a reporter for the now-defunct the Anchorage Times newspaper[5] from 1982 to 1992 and the Juneau Empire from 1999 to 2002.[3][16][17][18][5] She taught English at Kodiak High School in Alaska from 1965 to 1966 and also taught at Lowell State College in Massachusetts from 1966 to 1969.[16][3] For five years she was a publicist for a small publishing office in Anchorage.[16]

From the cover to her book "Colonial Food": "Ann Chandonnet is a food historian, poet and journalist. She is a member of the Culinary Historians of Washington, D.C., and is the author of the award-winning "Gold Rush Grub" and "The Pioneer Village Cookbook." Chandonnet started cooking when she was 11 or 12 years old and was making meals for the family. In high school, she entered her jams and canned foods to the state fair.[19]

Selected works

• "On a Human Scale", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "In Velvet," Kalliope: A Journal of Woman's Literature and Art, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1980.
• "Avalanche", Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2007
• Jam for the Lamb, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Summer 2008
• "Sacraments in Simple Things", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Summer 2009
• "Driving Black", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Fall 2011
• "My Mother’s Poems & My Father’s Poems", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Winter 2011
• "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Fall 2012
• "Sapphic", The Dead Mule School, December 2012

Poetry

• The Wife. Chugiak, Alaska: Chandonnet. 1979.
• The Wife: Part 2. Chicago, Ill.: Adams Press. 1979.
• At the Fruit-Tree's Mossy Root: The Marsh Hill Idylls. Wings Press. 1980.
• Ptarmigan Valley: Poems of Alaska. Boulder, CO: Lightning Tree Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-89016-053-4.
• Auras, Tendrils. Moonbeam, Ont.: Penumbra Press. 1984. ISBN 0-920806-45-7.
• Canoeing in the Rain: Poems for My Aleut-Athabascan Son. Forest Grove, Or.: Meredith Bliss. 1990. ISBN 978-0-9622738-2-7.

Fiction

• Chief Stephen's Parky : One Year in the Life of an Athapascan Girl. Niwot, Colo.: Roberts Rinehart. 1993. ISBN 9781879373396.
• The Birthday Party. McRoy & Blackburn Pub. 1995. ISBN 978-0963259639.

Non-fiction

• The Complete Fruit Cookbook. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin Books Australia. 1972. ISBN 9780140700534.
• The Cheese Guide & Cookbook : featuring recipes from the world's great cuisines and a glossary of cheeses and cheese terms. [Concord, Calif.]: [Nitty Gritty Productions]. 1973.
• Alaska Heritage Seafood Cookbook. Anchorage: Graphic Arts Center. 1995. ISBN 978-0-88240-469-1.
• Alaska's Arts, Crafts & Collectibles. Anchorage, AK: Chandonnet Editing & Research. 1998. ISBN 0-9662999-0-6.
• Anchorage, early photographs of the Great Land. Whitehorse, Yukon: Wolf Creek Books. 2000. ISBN 9780968195567.
• A History of Alaskan Totem Poles. Camarillo, CA: John Hinde Curteich, Inc. 2003.
• Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew to Hoochinoo. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-889963-71-6.
• Alaska's Inside Passage. New York: Compass American Guides. 2009. ISBN 9781400009022.
• "Write Quick": War and a Woman's Life in Letters, 1835-1867. Bethel, Maine: Winoca Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9789736-9-8.
• Colonial Food. Oxford: Shire Publications Ltd. 2013. ISBN 9780747812401.

Anthologies

• Patricia Monaghan, ed. (1983). Hunger and dreams : the Alaskan women's anthology. Fairbanks, Alaska: Fireweed Press. ISBN 9780914221005.
• Robert Hedin, ed. (May 1984). In the Dreamlight: 21 Alaskan Writers. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 978-0-914742-76-0.
• Kathleen Aponick, ed. (January 1992). Merrimack: A Poetry Anthology. Lowell, Mass.: Loom Press. ISBN 978-0-931507-05-2.
• Fine China: Twenty Years of Earth's Daughters. Springhouse Editions; First edition. 1993. ISBN 978-1877800047.
• Wayne Mergler, ed. (October 1, 1996). The Last New Land: Stories of Alaska, Past and Present. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books. ISBN 978-0-88240-483-7.
• Anne Hanley, ed. (2005). Alaska Reader: Voices from the North. Fulcrum Publishing. ISBN 9781555915551.
• Vicky Lettmann; Carol Roan, eds. (2011). When Last on the Mountain: The View from Writers over 50. Holy Cow! Press. ISBN 9780982354520.

References

1. "Ann Chandonnet » 2Leaf Press". 2Leaf Press. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
2. "Ann Chandonnet". The Alaska Writers Directory.
3. "Ann Chandonnet papers". Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
4. "Interviews". JOHN MORGAN, POET. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
5. "Introducing Ann Chandonnet, our September Featured Author". 49 Writers, Inc. 2009-09-02. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
6. "Ann Chandonnet". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
7. CurrentObituary.com. "Barbara A. Curran - Obituary - Tewksbury, MA / Chelmsford, MA - Tewksbury Funeral Home | CurrentObituary.com". Retrieved 2020-02-29.
8. Chandonnet, Ann. (1990). Canoeing in the rain : poems for my Aleut-Athabascan son. Forest Grove, Or.: Published for Mr. Cogito Press by Meredith L. Bliss. ISBN 0-932191-10-X. OCLC 24659145.
9. Chanodonnet, Ann Fox (1984). At the fruit-tree's mossy root. [United States]: [publisher not identified]. p. 56.
10. "EAnnotations: Fall 2008 - Alumni Bookshelf". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
11. Leney, Ann (1966-03-06). "Dracut Girl Teaching At Kodiak Island HS". Lowell Sun. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
12. Chandonnet, Ann. Pevear, Roberta Gibson. (2010). Write quick : war and a woman's life in letters, 1835-1867. Winoca Press. ISBN 978-0-9789736-9-8. OCLC 1034975276.
13. "Musings: Ann Chandonnet, September 25, 2008". 2 February 2009.
14. "Ann Chandonnet". www.press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
15. "McRoy & Blackburn, Publishers". www.alaskafiction.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
16. "Ann Chandonnet: From Alaska To Vale - Lincoln Herald". lincolnherald.net. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
17. journal_admin (2001-12-09). "Movers & Shakers December 9, 2001". Alaska Journal. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
18. "Ann Chandonnet – Sisters in Crime Greater St. Louis Chapter". Retrieved 2020-02-29.
19. Reed, Elaine (1972-10-23). "The Teacher Cooked Her Apples". Oakland Tribune. Retrieved 2020-03-06.