Bethany Hudson is a novelist, poet, and actress whose work most often finds itself at the intersection of history and literarature. She is endlessly fascinated by the ways in which past informs present and fiction informs fact. Bethany holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from the University of Washington, Bothell. She is the author of The Murder Ballad of Mary Phagan, an earlier draft of which was chosen as a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association’s 2022 Unpublished Novel Contest. She’s currently working on revisions, in addition to drafting Everywhere the Light Touches, a fictionalized biopic of pioneering 20th century businesswoman Alice K. Whitney Hutchison, which formed the creative portion of her Master’s thesis. Through a lens of grief, the project explores the tension existent between public and private realities, interrogating the known, while haunted by the context that hovers out of frame. Bethany is an active member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) and the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP). She lives with her family in Rochester, NY.