Bethany Maile

Bethany Maile is the author of the memoir Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis (fall 2020). Twice her essays have been named Notable Selections in the Best American series and once in the Best American Nonrequired Reading series. Her writing has appeared in a variety of magazines, including The Rumpus, Shenandoah, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, Essay Daily, and High Desert Journal. Her essay, "We Sought But Couldn't Find" was included in the anthology Essay Daily: A Reader (Coffee House Press). And her essay “What Happened” was anthologized in What Happened June 21, 2018 (Essay Daily/New Michigan Press). Maile lives in Boise, Idaho with her husband and two daughters.