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Writing
Micah Hales began writing her first journal when she was four. Her first published writing (laminated and spiral bound in 2nd grade) was titled “Dolphins,” and thanks to her teacher, she’s been obsessed with the writing process ever since. Her middle grade novel Howl was published in June 2019, and is available wherever books are sold. Micah’s poetry has been published in Chaparral Poetry Magazine and her play, The Whippoorwill, was produced and performed at the Electric Lodge Theater in Venice, CA. She is a member of the New York Metro regional chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI).

Teaching
When Micah’s not writing, she’s teaching. This is Micah’s twelfth year working as an educator, and her eighth year teaching 5th grade at Arts & Letters (now A&L / 305 United), a public school in Bedstuy, Brooklyn. While Micah was born in Devon, England and raised in Manhattan and the Hudson Valley, she’s lived in Bedstuy for the last nine years with her husband, filmmaker Tore Knos, and now their two children. In her free time, you will find her writing in her journal (still), and enjoying the good life with the people she loves, which means cooking up a storm for friends, and concocting homemake jokes with her children that will make you laugh “till your eyeballs fall out.”

Education / Work History
Micah graduated magna cum laude from New York University in 2004 with a Bachelors of Arts in English and American Literature. After finishing school, Micah worked in the editorial department of Workman Publishing in Manhattan, and the literary rights department of ICM in Los Angeles. Through the AmeriCorps program, Teach For America, Micah returned to school in 2011 to earn her Master’s Degree in Teaching from the Relay Graduate School of Education in New York City. Since then, she’s been proudly teaching and learning alongside some of the most diverse, dynamic, resilient, and astounding young people of New York City.