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).