Boyce Upholt

Boyce Upholt is a writer, editor, and “nature critic” based in New Orleans. He is the author of The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi (W.W. Norton, 2024), a national bestseller and the winner of the 2024 Willie Morris Prize for Southern Writing in nonfiction, and his magazine writing has appeared in many national publications. He is the founding editor of Southlands, a biannual print journal exploring nature and outdoors culture in the South.