Beth A. Staples Assistant Professor of English and Editor, Shenandoah

Payne Hall 304
540-458-8761
bstaples@wlu.edu

Education

M.F.A. in English/ Creative Writing, Arizona State University
B.A. in English, LaSalle University

Teaching

ENGL 453  Internship in Literary Editing
ENGL 289  Literary Book Publishing
ENGL 203  Introduction to Fiction Writing

 

Selected Publications and Awards

Staples, Beth. “Clitastrophe.” NELLE, Spring 2024. Winner of the Three Sisters Prize.
Staples, Beth. "Leaf Peepers." Cincinnati Review, Fall 2022.
Staples, Beth. “After Carl.” Bat City Review, Spring 2015.
Staples, Beth. “My Trip to the Hoover Dam.” Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, February 2008.
Staples, Beth. “Something with a Name.” The Portland Review, November 2007.

Selected Editorial Experience

2012-2018: Senior Editor, Ecotone; Editor, Lookout Books; and Assistant Director of the Publishing Laboratory at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington

2007-2012: Managing Editor, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Marginalia, and Word of Mouth at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing