Hank Nuwer story clearinghouse
Welcome. Enjoy the writings of author Hank Nuwer with occasional photos by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer. Note that all his literary words and correspondence are copyrighted. Please request permission before reprinting.
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Bio: University of Alaska (Fairbanks) adjunct professor Hank Nuwer is the 2025 Hoosier Press Association first-place winner for commentary, the2024 Alaska Press Club First-Place Columnist of the Year, the 2023 APC Alaska First-Place Columnist of Year, and 2022 Ohio SPJ First-Place Columnist of the Year. A longtime researcher on hazing in youth and adult groups, Hank Nuwer was named an “Alaska Champion” by the Alaska Children’s Trust, 2024-2025. His current books in print are Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage and The Hazing Reader (Indiana University Press).
More recent work: Hank Nuwer’s new forward published in Cultures of Sport Hazing and Ant-Hazing Initiatives for the 21st Century published by editors Jay Johnson and Jessica W. Chin. He’s also co-authored “Hazing in Fraternities and Sororities” by Elizabeth Allan and Nuwer in the recent Gender-Based Crime edited by Kathleen A. Bogle.
Nuwer’s interviews with Kurt Vonnegut, Louis L’Amour, Harry Crews, James Dickey, Maurice Sendak, Norman Mailer and David Mamet are in various biographies and interview collections.
Bio: Gosia Nuwer photographs Alaska and its wildlife. She and Hank reside in Fairbanks, Alaska, with 20 acres in remote Alaska. She has a master’s degree in Economics. She and her husband combined on an article on Alaska backroad trips for the next issue of Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum Magazine.
Essay: Hazing, A Weed in the Garden of Academe
Contact Hank Nuwer at Hnuwer@hanknuwer.com
Polar Attraction: A Bear-Watching Trip to Utqiagvik
Last Frontier Days Polar Attraction: A Bear-Watching Trip to Utqiagvik Review by Hank Nuwer Last weekend arrived, and it was time for us to fly out to yet another remote Alaska city, because that’s my wife Gosia’s bucket list dream. We’ve recently scratched...
“Aunt Jean”: An Unforgettable Alaskan Artist
Last Frontier Day “Aunt Jean”: An Unforgettable Alaskan Artist By Hank Nuwer It was 1980, in northern Colorado, when I chatted with Martha Jean Shadrach for the first time. A contributing writer to Denver Magazine then, I accepted an invitation from Jane, my...
From Slavery to Freedom to Public Service: The Healy Family
From Slavery to Freedom to Public Service: The Healy Family By Hank Nuwer First published in Cordova Times Irish immigrant Michael Morris Healy and his lifelong companion Mary Eliza Clark Smith found solace in their Catholic religion and took joy in the...
Ian Mandt’s Hazing: A weed in the garden of academe podcast
Here is the link to this powerful podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weed-in-the-garden-of-academe/id1460320573?i=1000706636684
Highly recommended: “If Your Dreams Don’t Scare You” by Joni Tevis
Yesterday for the first time I read a sad, brilliant piece of creative nonfiction in The Georgia Review, a periodical my long-ago house mate once appeared in. And like my former house mate, the author of this story was a Pushcart Press award winner. The title is "If...
Doug Dickey: Medal of Honor winner thanked in a memorable book
by Hank Nuwer: The urge begins as a mere impulse. “I could write a book,” someone thinks. “I should write a book.” While millions have confessed a similar urge, few start — let alone finish — the task. One who has done so is John B. Lang. Californian by birth and...
Does beer pair with salmon?
Have you heard about the salmon scientific experiment underway in Oregon? Hakai magazine reports that field researchers may have found a way to persuade hatchery fish to swim upstream back to their hatchery home the way wild young salmon do. Now, as a cheechako to...
Air n B’s customer service by Hank Nuwer
My wife Gosia and I returned yesterday from a working vacation in Alaska. The mountains wore a majestic white cape of snow. As we drove hairpin turns on the Kenai Peninsula, the Avis rental car belched an ominous warning noise. Gulp, a dashboard icon predicted...
The bucket List
By Hank Nuwer My wife Gosia’s dream to ride at top speed in a stockcar will come true next month. That’s her birthday gift from me. 10 years ago, I seized my own stockcar opportunity on the Lucas track in Clermont, Ind. “Dear Hank. Congratulations. Drivetech Racing...