Artress Bethany White, associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University, 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. Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as
Harvard Review,
POETRY,
The Hopkins Review, and
Kweli. Recent work appears in the anthology
Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creativity and Craft. She is nonfiction editor for the literary magazine
Pangyrus. Her author website is
artressbethanywhite.com.