Beth Ward is a journalist, editor, and award-winning essayist writing about books and art, bodies and place, feminism and folklore. She focuses primarily on women’s histories and women’s stories.
Beth’s work appears widely in publications including the Southern Review of Books, The Southeast Review, 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 magazine, Cunning Folk.
Beth holds an MFA in narrative nonfiction/narrative media writing from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. 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.