By 5 p.m. today we will have a 2022 Fat Bear Champion — but there can only be one.
Christy Namee Eriksen
Poet and writer Christy NaMee Eriksen is a Kundiman fellow and three-time Rasmuson Foundation awardee who lives in Juneau. She is writing about Fat Bear Week 2022 for the Anchorage Daily News.
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