Writer Corky Parker was an original staff member of KSKA—Alaska Public Media Radio— nearly 45 years ago, but she's added many chapters to her life since then. She joins us on this episode of State of Art to discuss her memoir.
A page from Corky Parker’s memoir “La Finca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island.”
Corky Parker, author of “La Finca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island” will be in Alaska in August. This week on State of Art we’re joined by Corky Parker. She was an original staff member of KSKA nearly 45 years ago, but she’s added many chapters to her life since then. Her memoir “La Finca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island” tells her story of running a rustic eco-lodge and what she learned along the way.
The book is filled with sketches, images and other artwork that won her a 2023 University Press Award for Book & Cover Design along with her 2023 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Nancy Pearl Award for Memoir. She will be in Alaska in August for readings and other events. She tells us about falling in love with a place, searching for authenticity and more.Georgia Blue Gallery in Anchorage: slideshow focusing on the book’s outsider art and illustration.Homer Public Library: a book reading, and talk, emceed and cohosted by Corky’s best friend since middle school, Charlotte Adamson Kilcher — star of the Discovery Channel series, “Alaska, the Last Frontier.
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