about artress
Artress Bethany White is an award-winning poet, essayist, and literary critic.
Her third poetry collection, A Black Doe in the Anthropocene: Poems, chronicles her family’s history of enslavement in America. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection My Afmerica: Poems (Trio House Press, 2019), selected by poet Sun Yung Shin, and is co-editor, with Danielle Legros Georges, of the anthology Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (Pangyrus, 2023), which writer Camille Dungy refers to as “a blessing and a balm.” Recent work also appears in the anthologies Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems for and About One Mr. Komunyakaa (Wesleyan, 2024) and Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creativity and Craft (McFarland, 2023). Her criticism appears in the collections Seeking Home: Marginalization and Representation in Appalachian Letters and Song (University of Tennessee Press, 2017) and Literary Expressions of African Spirituality (Lexington Books, 2013).White has received scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Tupelo Press MASS MoCA. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University.