DARCY COURTEAU is a writer and photo essayist documenting the rural and urban fantastic. She studies the outsider communities in which she lives through long-form projects; her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Oxford American, The Washington Post Magazine, The American Scholar, and other publications. She is a recipient of the Heising-Simons Foundation American Mosaic Journalism Prize, awarded to two freelance journalists in the United States each year for deep reporting on underrepresented groups. She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Ucross, a Rona Jaffe Foundation fellowship, and several grants from the DC Oral History Collaborative and the DC Commission for the Arts & Humanities. She lives with her children and her dog in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

All digital photographs in this site were taken with an iPhone camera.

Reach Darcy at darcy.courteau@gmail.com. 

Represented by Jin Auh with the Wylie Agency: jauh@wylieagency.com.