Beth Mayer writes fiction, essays, and poetry. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review; The Sun Magazine; The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate at Hamline University, where she served on the editorial board of the literary annual Water~Stone Review. With the Minneapolis based organization TalkingImageConnection, Beth creates and performs new writing inspired by contemporary visual art. She is currently working on her first collection of short stories.