Micah Fields has published essays and photography for the Oxford American, County Highway, Gulf Coast, The Baffler, Columbia Journalism Review, Field & Stream, Sonora Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, War, Literature & the Arts, and elsewhere. He holds a BA from the University of Montana and an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa. He received the Oxford American’s 2018-19 Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, and the AWP Intro Journals Award in nonfiction. He served as a Marine Corps infantry rifleman from 2007 to 2011 and is a combat veteran of deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He lives in Helena, Montana, where he writes, teaches, and works as a fly-fishing guide on the Missouri River. We Hold Our Breath, his book about Houston and its story of development and storms, was published by W. W. Norton in June 2023.
For publication inquiries, contact: micahbfields@gmail.com
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