Tess Fahlgren’s fiction and essays have appeared in Talk Vomit, Joyland, Permafrost Magazine, and is forthcoming from Montana Quarterly. A graduate from the University of Minnesota’s MFA program, she was the recipient of Blue Mesa Review’s 2020 Summer Nonfiction Contest and Montana Quarterly's 2016 Big Snowy Prize for Nonfiction.
In the past, Tess co-directed the Montana Book Festival and served as the Teaching Artist for the Art Mobile of Montana. She currently lives in her rural Montana hometown where her nonprofit recently built a skatepark.