Jerry Flu Profile

After graduating from the Yale School of Art and Architecture  in 1966, Jerry Flu moved to New York City to paint, freelance book jackets, hang out in the East Village, and dodge the draft. In 1970, spurred on by wanderlust and rising metropolitan-area rents, he emigrated to Alaska. Over the next fifty years, he taught school in the Alaska bush, drew a daily editorial cartoon for The Anchorage Times, wrote grant applications for health care facilities in remote Native villages, and occasionally commercial fished, tended bar, rode motorcycles, boxed, played in a band, and attended court-ordered substance-abuse treatment programs. He now lives in the woods at the edge of the grid, seventy-five miles north of Anchorage, and spends his time writing.