Beth Ward is an essayist, editor, and arts critic writing about books and art, bodies and place, feminism and folklore. Her work appears widely in publications including Oxford American, The Bitter Southerner, Southeast Review, Pleiades: Literature in Context, Hyperallergic, The Rumpus, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. Beth currently serves as Reviews Editor for Pleiades: Literature in Context. She holds an MFA in narrative nonfiction from the University of Georgia.