Beth Ward is an award-winning cultural critic, essayist, and editor whose work explores topics that live at the intersection of feminism and pop culture, including girlhood studies, the monstrous feminine in film and media, the cultural functions of eroticism and desire, and notions of abjection in art and culture.
Beth’s work appears widely 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, 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, on Substack.