Bethany Maile

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Bethany Maile is the author of the memoir Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis (fall 2020). Three times her essays have been named Notable Selections in the Best American series, and her creative work has earned an award from Prairie Schooner and three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of magazines, including The Rumpus, Shenandoah, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, Essay Daily,and High Desert Journal. Her essay, "We Sought But Couldn't Find" was included in the anthology Essay Daily: A Reader (Coffee House Press). And her essay "What Happened" was anthologized in What Happened June 21, 2018 (Essay Daily/New Michigan Press). Her graduate work earned her a position as a Fulbright Scholar Alternate.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2015*

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