Miles Wilson

His collection of stories Line of Fall (University of Iowa Press, 1989) won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. One of the stories, “On Tour with Max,” was optioned by an Academy Award-winning director. His collection of poems Harm, published in 2003 by the University of Nevada Press, won two book awards and was shortlisted for two others. Fire Season, a novel, won the Stephen F. Austin State University Press Fiction Prize and was published in 2014. Woodswork: New and Selected Stories of the American West, published in 2018 by the University of New Mexico Press, was a finalist for the Jesse Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. McKenzie Rising: An American Frolic was published in 2022 by the University of Nevada Press. He has held fellowships from the Writers’ League of Texas, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Miles Wilson was born in Belle Fourche, South Dakota and educated at Pomona College and the University of Oregon. He worked in fire control for the U. S. Forest Service in California and Oregon, served as managing partner for a small logging and lumber company, and taught at colleges in Oregon and Texas. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas State University where he was founding director of the MFA program.