Betsy Mars

Poet

Author's Bio

Betsy Mars is a prize-winning poet, photographer, and assistant editor at Gyroscope Review. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Her poems can be found in ONE ART, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Sheila-Na-Gig, Sky Island, Quartet, and Autumn Sky. Her photos have appeared online and in print, including one which was a Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge prompt in 2019. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She has two books, Alinea, and her most recent, co-written with Alan Walowitz, In the Muddle of the Night. In addition, she also occasionally collaborates with San Diego artist Judith Christensen, most recently on an installation entitled “Mapping Our Future Selves.” She has a BA in Psychology as well as a divisional major in Humanities with an emphasis in English from USC, as well as an MA in Communications Management through the Annenberg School of Communications at USC. She is currently working on a full-length manuscript. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Stained (Querencia Press, 2023)
,
Pandemic Evolution: Poets Respond to the Art of Matthew Wolfe (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2021)
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Sh!t Men Say to Me (Moon Tide Press, 2021)
,
Making Up (Picture Show Press, 2020)
Chapbooks:
In the Muddle of the Night (with Alan Walowitz) (Arroyo Seco Press, 2021)
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Alinea (Picture Show Press, 2019)
Prizes won: 

Poetry Salon New Poets' prize, first prize in Alexandria Quarterly's First Line Poetry Contest Series

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Sharon Olds, Emily Dickinson, Ada Limon, Ted Kooser, Naomi Shihab Nye, e.e. cummings, Ellen Bass, Jane Kenyon, Robert Bly, Seamus Heaney, and numerous others.
What I'm reading now: 
The Carrying by Ada Limon, Goshen Road by Bonnie Proudfoot, Slow Wreckage by Barbara Crooker, Watermark by Barbara Sabol

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Willimantic , CT
Connecticut
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Last update: Nov 01, 2024