Boyce Upholt
Boyce Upholt is a writer and nature critic whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, the Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. He is the winner of a James Beard Award for investigative journalism, and he lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Upholt is this year’s winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing in the nonfiction category for The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi. The Great River is his first book.

Boyce Upholt is a writer and nature critic whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, the Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. He is the winner of a James Beard Award for investigative journalism, and he lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Upholt is this year’s winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing in the nonfiction category for The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi. The Great River is his first book.