Her path as a writer has taken her to an undergraduate degree at Harvard, a master of fine arts at Columbia, and a prestigious $50,000 Whiting Writers' Award in 2009 for her poetry, collected in a book titled “The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife.” And now her path is bringing her back to Nome for two events: a writing class at Nome’s Northwest Campus, and a public reading of her work at Old St. Joe’s this Saturday.