Boyce Upholt

Boyce Upholt is a writer and nature critic based in New Orleans. His first book, The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi, was published by W.W. Norton in 2024 and won the Wille Morris Award for Southern Writing. He is the founding editor of Southlands, a new print publication exploring nature and outdoors culture in the U.S. South, launching Fall 2025.

Author photo: Daniel Pierre-Louis