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

Brett writes voice-driven, darkly comic fiction set in the American South and Mountain West. He also writes about outdoor sporting & conservation, travel and food for nationally distributed publications. He’s taught college English & Creative Writing, worked as an editor and ghostwriter.

He has bylines in Field & Stream, where he’s been a regular contributor, as well as Sporting Classics and Men’s Journal. He brought his fly fishing, travel and outdoors-writing know-how to Wildsam’s Pursuit series, as a lead writer for its Western Montana edition.

His fiction appears or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Writer’s Foundry Review, CutBank, BULL, Fiddleblack and Literary Orphans, among other places. He’s currently shopping his debut novel. You can subscribe to his Substack, “Puryear’s Southern Lit Jukebox,” to read essays on literature, Bob Dylan, David Lynch and Three 6 Mafia.

He’s taught at the University of Montana, where he earned his MFA in fiction, as well as American University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He lives in Western Montana, and is an obsessive fly fisher and gigs as a country singer.