Micah Perks is the author of a short story collection, a memoir and two novels. Her novel, What Becomes Us, won an Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, Kenyon Review, OZY, and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, nine Pushcart Prize nominations, the New Guard Machigonne Fiction Prize and residencies at the Blue Mountain Center. Micah directs the creative writing program at University of California, Santa Cruz.
At MacDowell, she worked on the second third of a three-part utopian novel that takes place in the Adirondacks. The first part is forthcoming as a novella from Ploughshares Solos in 2022.
