Tess Fahlgren’s fiction and essays have appeared in Talk Vomit, Joyland, Permafrost Magazine, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of Blue Mesa Review’s 2020 Summer Nonfiction Contest and Montana Quarterly's 2016 Big Snowy Prize for Nonfiction.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota’s MFA program, she was awarded the College of Liberal Arts Travel Grant, the Gesell Fellowship, and twice the O’Rourke Travel Grant. Previously, Tess co-directed the Montana Book Festival and taught art in rural Montana, both in a small public school and with the Art Mobile of Montana.
Tess lives in her rural Montana hometown where her nonprofit recently built a skatepark. She is at work on a memoir-in-essays.