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

His fiction appears or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, BULL, CutBank, Writer’s Foundry Review and elsewhere, with bylines in Field & Stream, Wildsam Field Guides, Men’s Journal and Sporting Classics. He also writes the Substack “Puryear’s Southern Lit Jukebox,” a growing collection of ‘noir essays’ on music, movies and books.

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.