Bethany Maile is the author of Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis (fall 2020). Three times her essays have been notable selections in the Best American series and her work has appeared in Shenandoah, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, and River Teeth, among others. Her essays have been anthologized in Essay Daily: A Reader and What Happened on June 21st 2018. She is writing a memoir about Alaska and motherhood, and she lives in Idaho with her husband and two daughters.
