About The Last Polar Bear: A journey into the near-future through the eyes of the last polar bear:
In 2040, as poachers close in on the last polar bear on earth, an Inuit scientist named Nuli must use her abilities to save the bear’s life, even at the risk of her own. Unchecked climate change and a deadly oil spill are decimating polar bear populations, and human supremacists are eradicating endangered species to free up Arctic resources. Nuli feels caught between two cultures, but when she develops a shamanic gift to communicate with the bear she calls Anuk, her mystical revelation is mind-blowing; Anuk has a plan of her own.
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Author Bio:
Dana was born in Westchester, New York in 1962. The majority of her professional career was in the design industry in California’s Napa Valley.
Dana began writing in 2018, motivated by the loss of two homes to California wildfires. As a result, her concern about climate change inspired a climate fiction novel titled The Last Polar Bear. A second historical novel inspired by the fires is One Extraordinary Thing, a story that unfolded from the idea that objects contain memory. Dana’s poetry collection titled- Collect My Dust- tragic/comic poems of a newly old woman will be published in 2023.
Dana won First Place for an excerpt from The Last Polar Bear in the 2021 Jessamyn West Writing Contest at Napa Valley College, and has published poetry in online literary journals including Sad Girls Literary and Grande Dame Literary.