Professor Emerita Phyllis Fast is an anthropologist, artist and mystery writer. Author of the acclaimed Northern Athabascan Survival: Women, Community, and the Future, her current focus is writing Alaska Native mysteries. At this event she discusses Half-Bead of Fundy and Midnight Trauma, which take place in Fairbanks, Alaska. • Half-Bead of Fundy: They wanted her beaded jacket at any cost. It was up to Alaska Native, Deloo Goode, to figure out what was so important about her mother's beading—or else be killed like the innkeeper at the Secret Spirit Inn. • Midnight Trauma: Someone has killed a teenager at a bead shop in remote Fairbanks, Alaska. Moreover, the owner, Earlene, is missing and the shop keeps getting broken into. Deloo Goode and her mother try to unravel the mysteries surrounding the bead shop. Phyllis Fast‘s heritage is Koyukon Athabascan and white American. She was born in Anchorage, in 1946 to Elsie and Oscar Fast, graduated from East Anchorage High School. Her academic accomplishments include earning a B.A. in English from the University of Alaska, an interdisciplinary Master of Arts from UAA, and a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. After teaching at UAF and UAA, she retired Professor Emerita in 2014. She now lives in Washington.