Betsy Boyd

Betsy Boyd’s fiction has been published in Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Five Points, StoryQuarterly, and elsewhere. Her short story “Scarecrow” received a Pushcart Prize. Betsy directs the Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program at the University of Baltimore and is the recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council awards, an Elliot Coleman Writing Fellowship, a James A. Michener Fellowship and residencies through Fundación Valparaíso, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She is a widow/single mom to wild and smart twin boys who turn 12 in July. Her husband, Michael, loved this story.