Brett Puryear is a fiction writer from Chattanooga, Tennessee, operating out of the great state of Montana.

His work appears or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, CutBank, BULL, Wildsam Field Guides, Feign, Writer’s Foundry Review and elsewhere, with bylines in Field & Stream, Men’s Journal and Sporting Classics. He also writes the Substack “Pedal Steel,” a growing collection of freewheeling essays on music, movies and books—and occasional short fiction.

Brett holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana, in Missoula, where he lives with his family. He’s finished a debut novel, a literary horror set in the East Tennessee mountains, and is represented by James Mustelier at the Bent Agency.