Bethany W Pope is an award winning author of the LBA, and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards. She was a runner up for the Cinnamon Press Novel Competition. She received her PhD from Aberystwyth University’s Creative Writing program. She was an assistant editor to Stanley Moss at Sheep Meadow Press. Her first poetry collection, A Radiance was published by Cultured Llama Press last June. Her second collection The Ancient of Days will be released in 2014. Her third collection, Persephone in the Underworld has been accepted by Rufus Books and shall be released in 2016. Her first chapbook The Gospel of Flies has been accepted by Writing Knights Press and will be released in 2014. Her work has appeared in: Anon, Art Times, Ampersand, Blue Tattoo,The Galway Review, Sentinel Quarterly, The Delinquent, De/Tached (an anthology released by Parthian), The Writer’s Hub, New Welsh Review, Poetry Review Salzburg, Every Day Poems, Miracle E-zine, And Other Poems, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Magma, Words & Music, The Quarterly Conversation, Tears in the Fence, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Poetry Pacific, Big River Poetry Review and Planet. Her work is due to appear in the next issues of Turbulence, Acumen, Thirteen Myna Birds, Bone Orchard, Music& Literature, Anon, and The Screech Owl.