Miciah Bay Gault

Miciah Bay Gault is the Elizabeth Drew professor of fiction at Smith College and teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her first book Goodnight Stranger was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson award and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel prize. Miciah was director of the Vermont Book Awards for ten years. She received a 2026 Vermont Arts Council creation Grant to work on a new book of ghosts stories.

Miciah's fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, The Harvard Review, The Sun, Agni, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She was the editor of the literary journal Hunger Mountain for nine years.

Miciah grew up on Cape Cod, Sanibel Island, and other places by the sea. She studied creative writing at Bard College and in the Syracuse University MFA program. She’s also been a high school English teacher, a swing dance instructor, a barista, and a fundraiser. Currently obsessed with snowflakes, luck, and Shirley Jackson, Miciah lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with her children.