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 appeared and is forthcoming in CALLALOO, CALYX, CAVE WALL, EUPHONY JOURNAL, EVENING STREET REVIEW, FREE STATE REVIEW, HIRAM POETRY REVIEW, PATERSON LITERARY REVIEW, WORLD LITERATURE TODAY, and many other literary and scholarly journals and magazines.