Micah Fields

Micah Fields is from Houston, Texas. He’s published essays and photography for the Oxford American, 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.