Joan Brown Dodd was born in 1933 in Missouri. After receiving her degree from Western New Mexico University, she moved to Seward, Alaska in 1958 to teach high school English. Also an RN, she then w...view moreJoan Brown Dodd was born in 1933 in Missouri. After receiving her degree from Western New Mexico University, she moved to Seward, Alaska in 1958 to teach high school English. Also an RN, she then worked as Director of Nurses at Seward General Hospital. In the ‘60s she moved to the Aleutian Islands where she lived for thirteen years between Dutch Harbor and Akutan. Her full length books, Cow Woman of Akutan and Welcome to 1960s Dutch Harbor, Alaska are memoirs of those adventures. She enjoys writing short stories and some have won recognition and prizes over the years. For relaxation she likes to do oil painting. She and her husband, Doug, live in Homer, Alaskaview less