BETHANY W. POPE

Bethany W. Pope

Bethany W. Pope's first book with Stay Thirsty, ORDINARY LIVES, is a special treat by a rising star with extraordinary talents and is the inaugural book published by Steven Jay Griffel under the SJG - A Steven Jay Griffel Book imprint of Stay Thirsty Publishing.

Bethany W. Pope received her Ph.D. from Aberystwyth University's Creative Writing program, and her M.A. from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She was awarded the first Luigi Bonomi Associates Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards, the Cinnamon Press Novel competition, and the Ink, Sweat and Tears poetry commission. She was recently highly commended at the Poetry London Competition. She also placed in the Bare Fiction Poetry Competition and the Bristol Poetry Prize. Bethany is an avid fencer, specializing in sabre, smallsword, and backsword, as well as a hiker and a comic book enthusiast. She lives in the United Kingdom with her husband Matthew.