Beth Ward is an editor, cultural critic, and essayist writing primarily about books and art, bodies and place, feminism and folklore, with a focus on women’s histories and women’s stories.
Her award-winning features, interviews, and reviews appear widely or are forthcoming in publications including American Poetry Review, Oxford American, Southern Review of Books, The Southeast Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Pleiades: Literature in Context, Hyperallergic, The Rumpus, Bitter Southerner, Cunning Folk, NPR, BUST Magazine, and elsewhere.
Beth holds an MFA in narrative nonfiction from the University of Georgia. Previously the books & film editor for ArtsATL, she currently serves as reviews & interviews editor for Pleiades.
You can also read No Light Thing, her newsletter on the intersection of culture and desire, on Substack.