is the author of four nonfiction books and numerous essays and articles that have appeared in Yankee, Country Journal, Boston Globe Magazine, New England Monthly, Alaska and Harvard Magazine, among other periodicals. His journalism has chiefly concerned matters of natural history, ecology, and environmental affairs. His book “Raven’s Children: An Alaskan Culture at Twilight” was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year in 1992 by the New York Public Library, and “Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman” won the 2002 New Hampshire Writers’ Project Nonfiction Prize. His most recent book, widely and favorably reviewed, is “The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire” (2005), due out in paperback this spring.
Carey holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard College and a master’s degree in educational administration from Lesley College. After a varied career as cannery worker, commercial fisherman, farm hand, museum curatorial assistant, bookstore clerk, market researcher, actor, musician and teacher, he is currently director of Publications for the Holderness School in Plymouth, N.H., a freelance journalist and vice president of the New Hampshire Writers Project board of trustees.
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