Beth MayerBeth Mayer's fiction has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Sun Magazine, and The Midway Review. Her stories have been anthologized in New Stories from the Midwest (Ohio University/Swallow Press) and American Fiction (New Rivers Press), and have een recognized by Best American Mystery Stories among "Other Distinguished Stories." Beth's collection was a finalist for the 2016 Orison Book Prize and the 2015 Many Voices Project. The Missouri Review's 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in fiction named her a finalist and her work in Jet Fuel Review has been nominated for the 2017 Best of the Net. Beth holds an MFA from Hamline University, was a Loft Mentor Series Winner in Fiction for 2015-16, and coordinates the Creative Writing Certificate at Century College. She lives in Minneapolis/St. Paul with her family and impossibly loyal dog. Read More Read Less