Bethany Maile
College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department of English
Lecturer
Campus Locations: Moscow
With UI Since 2011
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Creative Nonfiction, M.F.A University of Arizona 2011
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English, B.S. University of Idaho 2009
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Creative Writing
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Nonfiction Writing
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Screenwriting and Story Development
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Magazine Writing
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The American West
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Bethany Maile grew up in Eagle, Idaho. She studied creative writing at Emerson College and later completed a B.S. in Creative Writing at the University of Idaho. She then moved to Tucson, Arizona where she earned a M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Arizona. She lives with her husband in Anchorage, Alaska and teaches writing online.
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- "True Grit, Country Strong, and Other Lies: A Taxonomy of Western Women" (essay) forthcoming in The Normal School
- "Ladies' Night at the Shooting Range" (essay) Fall 2011 Prairie Schooner
- "The Wild Ones" (essay) Fall 2011 River Teeth
- "The Pull of Moving Water" (essay) Winter 2009 South Dakota Review
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- Awarded a 2012 Resident Fellow Position at Island Institute, Sitka, Alaska
- Received a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award for "Ladies' Night at the Shooting Range"
- Received a Puschart Prize Nomination for "The Wild Ones"
- Earned a Foundation Award, University of Arizona: given in recognition of achievements in writing 2009-2011
- Named Alternate Scholar, Fulbright Scholar Program 2011-2012
- Granted a Teaching Fellowship, University of Arizona: awarded to the top-ranking MFA nonfiction student 2010
- Awarded a Reid Leishman Award, University of Idaho: given to an outstanding English senior 2009