Miciah Bay Gault

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Novel Retreat

photo credit: Daryl Burtnett

Profile

Miciah Bay Gault is the author of the novel Goodnight Stranger (Park Row Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and a First Fictions feature in Poets & Writers. It was also longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.

Miciah is currently guest fiction editor for the Harvard Review and coordinator of the Vermont Book Award. Miciah’s fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times’ “Modern Love” column, Tin House, LitHub, Electric Literature, Salon, The Harvard Review, Poets & Writers, The Sun, The Southern Review, Agni, The Literary Review, and in the anthology Contemporary Vermont Fiction (Green Writers Press, 2014). A graduate of the Syracuse MFA program, Miciah served as the editor of the literary journal Hunger Mountain for nine years, and as faculty in the Writing & Publishing program at VCFA.

Contact

[email protected]

Education

MFA - Creative Writing | Syracuse University

MEd - Secondary Language Arts Education | Portland State University

BA - Creative Writing | Bard College

Selected work

Melissa Faliveno

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Richard Jackson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Wanjikū Wa Ngūgī

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Natasha Sajé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry/CNF]

Nance Van Winckel

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/poetry]

Bret Lott

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Patrick Madden

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/hybrid forms]

Ellen Lesser

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Director, Postgraduate Writers' Conference

David Wojahn

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

T. Geronimo Johnson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Geoff Bouvier

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/poetry/hybrid forms]

SJ Sindu

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Hasanthika Sirisena

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Clint McCown

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Robin MacArthur

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Novel Retreat

Chachi Hauser

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Sue William Silverman

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/hybrid forms]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Fernando A. Flores

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Connie May Fowler

Faculty Co-Chair, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]; Director, Novel Retreat

Adam McOmber

Faculty Co-chair, MFA in Writing [fiction/hybrid forms]; Editor in Chief, Hunger Mountain Review

Caleb Curtiss

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Miciah Bay Gault

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Novel Retreat

Tarfia Faizullah

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Betsy Sholl

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Leslie Ullman

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Philip Metres

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Brian Leung

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Barbara Hurd

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Clifford Thompson

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF/ hybrid forms]

Elena Passarello

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Faculty, MFA in Writing [CNF]