Micah Bloom is an artist and educator teaching at Minot State University. He earned his MFA in Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa and has been selected for numerous artist–in– residence fellowships. His paintings have been published in literary and art journals, and he has shown work nationally and internationally, including private galleries in China and the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. His multi-media project with Minot, North Dakota’s flooded books, Codex, was exhibited throughout the US and his book was recently received into the Rare Books collection at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Married for 18 years, Micah and his wife Sara, share four daughters and two sons, and they all love to make things.