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 at Goddard College. She has been a CBS Fellow in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania; and, a Bread Loaf Scholar. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Aanna, African American Review, Birmingham Arts Journal, Callaloo, Calyx, Cave Wall, Evening Street Review, and many other literary and scholarly journals.