Annie Boochever grew up in Juneau, where she became a teacher and playwright. During four decades as an educator, Annie wrote and produced more than a dozen multicultural musical plays for elementary students, earned an MFA in creative writing for children and young adults from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, and cofounded the Alaska Children?s Theater. Her books Bristol Bay Summer and Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich , written in collaboration with Roy Peratrovich Jr., have won numerous awards.