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 media writing 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.