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Uintah Basin Standard Article

A debut novel features a setting that will be familiar to residents of the Uintah Basin. It's not by accident.

The Write Question

The talented Cherie Newman interviews me for The Write Question, airing on Yellowstone Pubic Radio and Montana Public Radio.

The unexpectedness of the opening scene — Helen hiking up the Black Elk Mountains with the Hindu pundit who’s to perform her (second) wedding ceremony — is a frightfully fresh scenario, the perfect doorway into a thick, thorny story.

Interview with Ben LeRoy

Ben LeRoy and I discuss my novel in a spooky hotel hallway

Best American Essays 2012

It feels like I'm at a surprise party.

Sweet Land of Bigamy

Sweet Land of Bigamy by Miah Arnold is a dramatic and humorous debut novel about one woman who dared to love—and marry—two very different men.

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Books

When Helen Motes finds herself on a Utah mountaintop getting married to a besotted young Indian poet, she can’t quite figure out how she became a bigamist, and she certainly doesn’t want to be one.

Events

February
6 Writing and C/Siting Houston with Philip Lopate & Bill Monroe
9 Inprint Poets and Writers Ball
March
7 AWP, Boston
13 Renegade Reading Series, Brooklny (TBA more soon)
May
20-24 Teaching at the Boldface Conference in Houston, Texas

About Me

Miah Arnold is the author of Sweet Land of Bigamy, and a number of short pieces of literature. Her essay, “You Owe Me” (originally published by Michigan Quarterly Review) will appear in Best American Essays 2012…