Adam Boucher

Biography

Adam Boucher spent twelve years in the Forest Service as a wildland firefighter, including four years on Hotshot crews. A graduate of the University of Wyoming MFA program, he lives in Laramie, Wyoming, and works as an engine captain for the Forest Service in Walden, Colorado.

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ESSAYS

‘Just Write a Story’

By Adam Boucher

Though Jones was gentle about the story’s deficiencies, it was clear he was frustrated. I think this was because it was clear to him that the basics of humanity shouldn’t be that difficult to express. He spent an hour and a half going over...
FICTION / Summer 2014

Leon’s Fire

By Adam Boucher ,  Illustration by Stephanie Shieldhouse

Leon was a loser, but a tough loser trapped in a linebacker’s body. He wasn’t a vindictive person, or a hateful person, but there were long gaps in his disposition where you could tell a certain kind of dimness was setting in, the kind of...