Miciah Bay Gault

Miciah Bay Gault grew up on Sanibel Island, Cape Cod, and other places by the sea. A graduate of the Syracuse MFA program, she now teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and coordinates the Vermont Book Award. Her first book, Goodnight Stranger, was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.

Miciah's fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times’s Modern Love column, Tin House, LitHub, Electric Literature, Poets & Writers, Salon.com, The Sun, The Harvard Review, The Southern Review, Agni etc. She's been a Fellow at Bread Loaf, a visiting writer at the Vermont Studio Center, and the recipient of a Creation Grant and an artist development grant from the Vermont Arts Council. Miciah was the editor of the literary journal Hunger Mountain for 9 years.

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