Beth Brown Preston is a poet and novelist. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Writing Program of Goddard College she has been a CBS Fellow in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania; and, a Bread Loaf Scholar in Nonfiction. She has published three collections of poetry with the Broadside Lotus Press and Aquarius Press/Willow Books, and two chapbooks of poetry. Her recent poetry collection is OXYGEN II (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2025) and was nominated for the 2026 Paterson Poetry Prize.