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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). She is currently hard at work on an untitled YA adventure / fantasy duology.

Teaching & Life
When Micah’s not writing, she’s busy teaching Middle School English. This is Micah’s fifteenth year of reading and writing with some of the most dynamic, resilient, and astounding young people of New York City and the lower Hudson Valley. Micah lives with her husband, filmmaker Tore Knos, and their two children in the lower Hudson Valley. In her free time, you will find her writing in her journal (still), cooking for friends, and concocting homemade jokes with her children that will make you laugh “till your eyeballs fall out.”

Education
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.