Beth Couture received her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the Center Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, MFA from the University of Notre Dame, MA from SUNY-Binghamton, and her Bachelor’s from Hollins University. Her fiction has appeared in Gargoyle, The Southeast Review, The Georgetown Review, Drunken Boat, The Yalobusha Review, Ragazine, and in the anthology, Thirty Under Thirty. She currently lives in Philadelphia and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Social Work at Bryn Mawr College.