Kirsten Dixon

Kirsten Dixon is an award-winning chef, lodge owner and author, who has been living in the backcountry of Alaska for more than 25 years. She owns Within the Wild Adventure Company along with her husband Carl and two daughters, Mandy and Carly. Together they operate three boutique wilderness lodges and a cooking school, all located in south-central Alaska.

Kirsten writes about food, travel and the art of hospitality. She believes that the most important reason to travel is to capture those small, perfect moments in life that can only come along by being in that place at that time.

She attended Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Paris, and earned a master’s degree in gastronomy from Adelaide University in Australia. She continues to travel around the world in search of culinary inspiration and adventure. When she is at home, she works hard to share with her guests those experiences that inspire her and Carl to live in the Alaska wilderness.

For more on Kirsten, go to Within the Wild.