Kaylene Johnson is author of five books about Alaska and the people who live there. Her books include Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down; Portrait of the Alaska Railroad; Trails Across Time: History of an Alaska Mountain Corridor; and the memoir A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Sons in Alaska. Her award-winning articles and essays have appeared in the Louisville Review, Spirit, LA Times, Alaska magazine and other publications.