Through the Waters and the Wild

Greg Fields is the author of Arc of the Comet, a lyrical, evocative examination of promise, potential and loss, published by Koehler Books and released in October 2017. The book was nominated for the Cabell First Novelist Award, the Sue Kaufman First Fiction Prize and the Kindle Book of the Year in Literary Fiction. Inspired and informed by the expressively literate styles of Niall Williams, Colm Toibin and the best of Pat Conroy, Through the Waters and the Wild explores themes of exile and redemption in prose described by Owen Thomas, award winning author of The Lion Trees, as 'wonderful, compelling and luminous.' Greg is also the co-author with Maya Ajmera of Invisible Children: Reimagining International Development from the Grassroots. He has won recognition for his written work in presenting the plight of marginalized young people through his tenure at the Global Fund for Children, and has had articles published in the Harvard International Review, as well as numerous periodicals, including The Washington Post and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. His short nonfiction has appeared in The Door Is A Jar and Gettysburg Review literary reviews. An accomplished and well respected editor as well, Greg lives in Manassas, Virginia. He may be reached at www.gregfields.net.