Artress Bethany White is a poet, essayist and literary critic. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection "My Afmerica: Poems" (Trio House Press, 2019). Her essay collection, "Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity," received a 2022 Next Generation Finalist Indie Book Award. White has received fellowships, scholarships, and residencies from The Appalachian College Association, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Tupelo Press/MASS MoCA studios.
Kirkus Reviews calls White’s book "Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity" “A well-written, powerful examination of America’s racial legacies.” White is nonfiction editor for the Cambridge-based literary magazine Pangyrus and associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University. Her author website is artressbethanywhite.com, and IG and Twitter @artresswhite.
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