The Los Angeles Times called Micah Perks’ first novel, We Are Gathered Here (1997, St. Martin’s), “a woman's manifesto...a tightly woven story that is as fanciful as it is grimly real.” Her memoir, Pagan Time, came out in paper in 2009 from Counterpoint, has been translated into Korean, is an audio book from audible and will come out in Spanish through Kachina Ediciones. In 2010 The San Francisco Chronicle listed it in Best Summer Reading and Adirondack Life listed it as Adirondack Required Reading. She is also the author of a book of linked short stories, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape (Outpost19, 2018) and the novel What Becomes Us (Outpost19, 2016), winner of an Independent Publisher’s Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. She’s published short stories and essays in Zyzzyva, The Massachusetts Review, Tin House, OZY, Kenyon Review on-line and Epoch, amongst many others, and her stories have been anthologized in The Encyclopedia Project, Viz Inter Arts, The Best Underground Fiction, Santa Cruz Noir and others. You can find several of her stories on audible.com. Five of her stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She has been given multiple residencies at The Blue Mountain Center, received a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts grant and a residency at McDowell. She won an NEA, The New Guard Machigonne Fiction prize and other prizes for her novel, What Becomes Us. Micah lives with her family in Santa Cruz California, where she directs the creative writing program and is a professor in the Literature Department at University of California, Santa Cruz.