Beth Ward is an award-winning journalist, editor, and arts critic writing about books and art, bodies and place, feminism and folklore. She focuses primarily on women’s histories and women’s stories.
Her features, essays, interviews, and criticism appear widely in publications including Pleiades: Literature in Context, Oxford American, Hyperallergic, The Rumpus, Iron Horse Literary Review, NPR, BUST, Bitter Southerner, and elsewhere. She is a regular contributor to UK-based Cunning Folk magazine and currently serves as Reviews Editor for Pleiades.
In addition to her work as an arts journalist and essayist, Beth is also a veteran nonprofit communications strategist and publications manager, working with progressive, mission-driven organizations to tell powerful, human-centered stories that make an impact and catalyze change.
Beth holds a BA in Communication from Mercer University and an MFA in narrative nonfiction/narrative media writing from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.