Life Writing: Micah Fields & Laura Joyce-Hubbard In Conversation

Hurricanes, Hang flys, & C-130 Hercules: How to Bring it to the Page: Join us for an engaging discussion with these two talented writers at Trinity Episcopal Church in Highland Park. Dive into a conversation on their creative processes, inspirations, and the stories behind their works. Free & in-person event to gain insight into the world of life writing. Connect with fellow literature enthusiasts and expand your literary horizons.

Micah Fields is a writer, teacher, and fly-fishing guide on the Missouri River. He is the author of We Hold Our Breath (W. W. Norton, 2023), and his work has been published in the Oxford American, County Highway, Gulf Coast, and other outlets. He served as a Marine Corps infantry rifleman from 2007 to 2011 before earning his 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's a combat veteran of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and lives in Helena, Montana.

Laura Joyce-Hubbard’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. She's a recent Finalist for the National Poetry Series and has won The Iowa Review’s Veteran Writing Award, Nonfiction Contest at Southeast Review, and the Individual Poem and Essay Prize in the Pirate’s Alley Writing Competition. Her essays were selected as a “Notable” in Best American Essays 2022 and 2023 and she won the AWP Intro Journals Award in nonfiction. She is an MFA Candidate at Northwestern University, a veteran US Air Force C-130 pilot, a fiction editor for TriQuarterly, and the inaugural Highland Park Poet Laureate.

Host or Publisher Highland Park Poet Laureate, Laura Joyce-Hubbard