About me
Artress Bethany White is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. Her third poetry collection, A Black Doe in the Anthropocene: Poems, is forthcoming from University Press of Kentucky in spring 2025 and chronicles her family's history of enslavement in America. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection My Afmerica: Poems (Trio House Press, 2019), selected by poet Sun Yung Shin, and is co-editor of the anthology Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (Pangyrus, 2023), which writer Camille Dungy refers to as "a blessing and a balm." Recent work also appears in the anthologies Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems for and About One Mr. Komunyakaa (Wesleyan, 2024) and Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creativity and Craft (McFarland, 2023). White has received scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Tupelo Press MASS MoCA. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University.
