Beth Gulley

Beth Gulley lives in Spring Hill, Kansas and teaches writing at Johnson County Community College. She has an MA from UMKC and a PhD from the University of Kansas. When not writing about teaching, Beth primarily writes poetry.

One of her latest books, The Sticky Note Alphabet (from Alien Buddha Press), reminds us that small things are not always unimportant things. In December, her book Dragon Eggs was published by Spartan Press. In January, she released a full length poetry collection called Love of Ornamental Fish (Alien Buddha Press) that highlights her sabbatical year in Xi’an, China. Her older work includes the 2018 chapbook, $!*# Hole Countries: A Find and Replace Meditation. 

Her poetry and stories also appear in the Bards Against Hunger Anthology, From Everywhere a Little: A Migration Anthology, the Thorny Locust, and The Gasconade Review Presents: Storm A’Comin’, Kansas Letters to a Young Poet, and the 105 Meadowlark Reader. She has been a proud member of the Facebook group 365 Poems in 365 Days since 2015, and her poems appear in all three of the 365 Poems in 365 Days anthologies.

Beth serves on the Riverfront Reading Committee (https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php) and is a Writer’s Place (https://thewritersplace.wildapricot.org/) board member. She loves thrift store shopping, traveling, and drinking coffee.