2023 Author Expo Author

Artress Bethany White received a Next Generation Finalist Indie Book Award for her debut essay collection Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity (New Rivers Press). She is also the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection, My Afmerica (Trio House Press, 2019), and the author of the poetry collection Fast Fat Girls in Pink Hot Pants. Her prose, poetry, and book reviews have appeared in such anthologies and journals as How I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creativity and Craft (fall 2022), POETRY Magazine, Harvard Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Banyan Review, The Hopkins Review, Salamander, Pleiades, and Green Mountains Review. White has received fellowships and residencies at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Writer’s Hotel, and the Tupelo Press/MASS MoCA studios. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University and teaches poetry and nonfiction workshops for Rosemont College Summer Writer’s Retreat in Pennsylvania. She is also nonfiction editor at the Boston-based literary magazine Pangyrus.