Beth Brown Preston is a poet and novelist with two collections of poetry from the Broadside Lotus Press and two chapbooks of poetry, including Oxygen II (Moonstone Press, 2022). She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Writing Program of Goddard College. She has been a CBS Fellow in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bread Loaf Scholar. Her work has been recognized by the Hudson Valley Writers Center, the Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute, the Writer’s Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and by the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in many literary and scholarly journals and magazines.