
Micah Perks
- Born: The United States.
- Description: Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, a long personal essay, Alone in the Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me and her new novel, What Becomes Us. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations, and three of them are available separately on audible: Ghost Deer, There Once Was A Man Who Longed For A Child, and King of Chains. Excerpts of her new novel, What Becomes Us, won an NEA and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University. She lives in Santa Cruz with her family where she co-directs the creative writing program at University of California, Santa Cruz. More info and work at micahperks.com
Topics
- Life(31,642 Quotes)
- Inspirational(29,961 Quotes)
- Humor(22,763 Quotes)
- Philosophy(15,491 Quotes)
- Truth(11,471 Quotes)
- Wisdom(10,060 Quotes)
- Death(9,795 Quotes)
- God(9,643 Quotes)
- Poetry(9,371 Quotes)