Wally Humphries Member Member since 2023

Forest fires and travel.

Fiction Nonfiction

Wally Humphries has a BAS in Wildland Fire Management and thirty-three graduate credits in the MFA Creative Writing at Boise State University. He was an editorial member for the tenth anniversary issue of the Idaho Review. He has an AAS in Horticulture Technology from College of Western Idaho. Wally retired from smokejumping after twenty-five fire seasons.

His writing piece, “Trip Back from Fires,” was published in SWAMP, a postgraduate creative writing publication, University of New Castle, Australia. In November 2007, All Rights Reserved Literacy Journal, Halifax Nova Scotia, published "Babalawo." Close to the same time, “Anvik Staging for Fire 546,” won honorable mention in Thoreau's Rooster, Assumption College. Award writer Bill Rohrbach was the judge. In 2012 “Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Wildfire,” was published in Smokejumper Magazine.