Beth Ward is an award-winning essayist, arts journalist, and editor based in Atlanta.
Her work, exploring themes of feminism and folklore, millennial girlhood and the monstrous feminine, art and abject bodies, appears widely in publications including American Poetry Review, Cunning Folk, Oxford American, Southern Review of Books, The Southeast Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Pleiades: Literature in Context, The Rumpus, Bitter Southerner, BUST Magazine, and elsewhere. Her essays have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and recognized by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
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 her newsletter, No Light Thing, about culture, eroticism, and desire, on Substack.