Bethanie Humphreys is a late-blooming lesbian from Sacramento, California. She is a writer, editor, mixed-media visual artist, and educator. Former Editor-in-Chief for American River Review and Associate Editor and Art Director for Tule Review, her poetry, fiction, essays, and visual art has appeared in the U.S., Canada, and U.K., in The Poetry Foundation, Artemis, Nonbinary Review, and Found Poetry Review, and others. Her chapbook, Dendrochronology, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2019.

She served as board member for the Sacramento Poetry Center and co-curator for the SPC Art Gallery from 2015-2020. She is a Community of Writers Poetry Workshop Alumni, has a Bachelors in Spanish from CSU, Sacramento, and a Creative Writing Certificate in Literary Publishing from American River College. She is also a California Certified Naturalist, and AWA certified. She leads various workshops including: science poetry, poetry editing, a guided National Poetry Writing Month experience, and all-genre AWA-method generative writing. E-mail her at bethaniehu@hotmail.com [2] for information on the latest workshop, or learn more at https://bethaniehumphreys.com/ [3]