Miciah Bay Gault grew up on Sanibel Island, Cape Cod, and other places by the sea. A graduate of the Syracuse MFA program, she now teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and coordinates the Vermont Book Award. Goodnight Stranger is her first book.

Goodnight Stranger was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. It was also a First Fictions feature in Poets & Writers. Cosmopolitan says it's “one of the best literary thrillers you’ll read this year." It was named one of the 10 smartest beach reads of 2019 by BBC Culture, as well as a must-read crime title by Book Riot, and Elle Canada says it’s the book to bring on your summer road trip.

Miciah's fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love column, Tin House, LitHub, Electric Literature, Poets & Writers, Salon.com, The Sun, The Harvard Review, The Southern Review, Agni, The Literary Review, and the anthology Contemporary Vermont Fiction (Green Writers Press, 2014). She's been a Fellow at Bread Loaf, a visiting writer at the Vermont Studio Center, and the recipient of a Creation Grant and an artist development grant from the Vermont Arts Council.

Miciah was the editor of the literary journal Hunger Mountain for 9 years. She’s also been a high school English teacher, a swing dance instructor, a barista, and a nanny. Currently obsessed with snowflakes, luck, and Shirley Jackson, Miciah lives in Montpelier, VT with her husband and three children.