Robert McMichael is a former professor and high school English teacher. His first novel, The Rim, is the prequel to Stay the Course, and was published by Chukar Culture Press. He’s published fiction and essays in a variety of places, including Vassar Review, Wayne Literary Review, Courtship of the Winds, Kelp Journal, Coneflower Café, Gray’s Sporting Journal, National Geographic Traveler, Boise Journal, and American Music. His hunting memoir, Chukar Culture: Memory, Dogs, Paradox, is available through Chukar Culture Press. He lives in rural western Idaho with his wife (who writes regularly for Chukar Culture, and who routinely outshoots and outhunts her husband) and their Brittanys Peat and Bloom.
Chukar Culture began in 2009 as a place to think out loud about what it means to spend a season in the hills with a dog, chasing a bird that doesn’t make it easy. It has grown into something harder to categorize: part field journal, part literary essay, part ongoing argument with himself about a sport he can’t quit.
Chukar Culture Press grew out of that same impulse — a conviction that writing about hunting, land, memory, and the rural West deserves careful, book-length attention.
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Published in: Vassar Review · Wayne Literary Review · Courtship of the Winds · Kelp Journal · Coneflower Café · Gray’s Sporting Journal · National Geographic Traveler · Boise Journal · American Music
Ph.D., Brown University · Former Professor, Boise State University & Stanford University