Beth Staples

Beth Staples’s fiction appears or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Cincinnati Review, the Portland Review, Phoebe, and NELLE, where her story “Clitastrophe” won the Three Sisters Award. She is an associate professor of English at Washington and Lee University, where she edits Shenandoah and teaches classes in creative writing, editing, and publishing. She previously worked as the editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review, as a prose editor for Ecotone, and as an editor for Lookout Books. She is the co-author of the forthcoming book Making Literary Magazines from the University of Chicago Press. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her husband and two young sons.