Rick Bass

Rick Bass is the author of more than 30 books, including, most recently, With Every Great Breath. He is the winner of a Story Prize, a James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and a PEN/Nelson Algren Award Special Citation for fiction and a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. He has served as contributing editor to Sierra, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Big Sky Journal, Amicus Journal, Outside, Orion, Field & Stream, the Contemporary Wingshooter, and many other publications. He serves on the editorial board of Whitefish Review and teaches in the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program. He was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana’s Yaak Valley for almost 40 years.