Dr. Beth Keefauver earned her Ph.D. in English and creative writing at the University of Tennessee, where she specialized in contemporary literature, environmental literature, and women’s studies. Her fiction has appeared in Bluestem Magazine, The Citron Review, Pisgah Review, Stirring, Blue Lotus Review, Press 53 Blog, and the anthology, Not Somewhere Else but Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place (Sundress, 2014). Her nonfiction has appeared in ISLE, Grist, and Great Smokies Review. In 2015, Beth joined the University of South Carolina Upstate’s Department of Languages, Literature, and Composition, where she teaches composition, business writing, and creative writing. Her pedagogical interests include active learning and service learning. She has written and performed in the Asheville, N.C., area for LYLAS, an all-female comedy troupe, and “Listen to This,” a monthly storytelling series, and is a former fiction editor of the literary journal, Grist.