Beth Bachmann is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and the author of three books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper, winner of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ Donald Hall Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Do Not Rise, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and CEASE, winner of the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Emily Clark Balch Prize. Her fiction has been selected by Danielle Evans as winner of The Kenyon Review’s 2023 Short Fiction Contest, by Jamil Jan Kochai as winner of the 2023 Zoetrope Short Fiction Competition, and by Karen Russell as second-place winner of the 2023 American Short(er) Fiction Prize.

Beth grew up outside Philadelphia and earned degrees from the John Hopkins Writing Seminars and Concordia University in Montreal. For many years, she served as Writer in Residence in the MFA program at Vanderbilt University and now divides her time between Nashville and New York City, where she is at work on her first novel.