Graveyard of Dreams: Dashed Hopes and Shattered Aspirations Along Alaska's Iditarod Trail
Craig Medred is an award-winning journalist and contributor to the Alaska Dispatch. He has spent 30 years writing about the majesty and extremes of Alaska. He has covered over 25 consecutive Iditarods from Anchorage to Nome. In 1987, he won the Best Newspaper Writing Award for deadline writing from the American Sociey of Newspaper Editors for his Iditarod coverage. In 1992, he was named one of America's best sports writers for his coverage of Iditarod mushers and the drama of the race across the Alaska tundra.  Originally from Staples, Minnesota, Medred moved to Alaska in 1973 where he earned a degree in journalism from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He worked briefly in Washington, DC as the press-secretary to then-Senator Mike Gravel, but has spent most of his career in broadcast and newspaper journalism.  Medred is an outdoor enthusiast who loves to fish, hunt, ski, mountain bike and chase Alaska adventures in a half dozen other ways. He and his family, including two labrador retrievers and a West Highland terrier live in Anchorage, Alaska.