Beth McDermott is the author of How to Leave a Farmhouse, a chapbook published by Porkbelly Press. Her poems have been published in journals such as Tupelo Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Terrain.org and Southern Humanities Review. Research interests include ecopoetry, ekphrasis, and poetic form. Articles and reviews about art and ecology can be found in The Trumpeter, After the Art, American Book Review, and Kudzu House Quarterly, where she was also Poetry Editor. Beth holds degrees from Hope College, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis and lives in Frankfort, IL.
