Beth Mayer’s short story collection We Will Tell You Otherwise won the 2017 Hudson Prize with Black Lawrence Press and is slated for publication in July 2019. Her fiction has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Sun Magazine, and The Midway Review. Beth’s stories have been anthologized in New Stories from the Midwest (Ohio University/Swallow Press) and American Fiction (New Rivers Press). Her work was recognized by Best American Mystery Stories among “Other Distinguished Stories” and was nominated for Best of the Net 2017 by Jet Fuel Review. Beth holds an MFA from Hamline University, was a finalist in The Missouri Review’s 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in fiction, and was a Loft Mentor Series Winner in Fiction for 2015-16. She teaches English and runs the creative writing program at Century College in Minneapolis-St. Paul, where she lives with her family and impossibly faithful dog.
