Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Faculty

Beth Gylys

A Professor of English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University, Beth Gylys has published three books of poetry, Sky Blue Enough to Drink, finalist for the 2015 Georgia Author of the Year Award, (Grayson Books, 2015), Spot in the Dark (Ohio State UP 2004) and Bodies that Hum (Silverfish Review Press 1999) and two chapbooks Matchbook (La Vita Poetica Press 2007) and Balloon Heart (Wind Press 1998). Awarded fellowships and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, La Muse and La Centre D'art i Natura de Farrera, she has work published or forthcoming in many anthologies and journals including Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Barrow Street, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares.