Beth Ward is an award-winning essayist, editor, and critic writing about books and art, bodies and place, feminism and folklore. She focuses primarily on women’s histories and women’s stories.
Her work appears widely in publications including Oxford American, Hyperallergic, The Rumpus, Pigeon Pages Literary Journal, NPR, BUST, The Bitter Southerner, Atlas Obscura, and elsewhere. She is a regular contributor to UK-based Cunning Folk magazine.
Beth previously served as the books + film editor for ArtsATL, and with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts as a nonfiction editor for the VIDA Review. She served on the board of the Georgia Writers Association from 2020-2021.
Beth holds an MFA in narrative nonfiction from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. She has work forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review and Pleiades.