Bethanie Humphreys

Bethanie Humphreys is a Sacramento native, San Joaquin Valley farm-raised writer, editor, 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, Australia, and U.K., in The Poetry Foundation, Caesura, Science Write Now, 3rd Street Review, Artemis, and others. A finalist for the 2026 A.R. Ammons Poetry Prize, and her chapbook, Dendrochronology, was published by Finishing Line Press.

She served as board member for the Sacramento Poetry Center and 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 [email protected] for information on the latest workshop, or learn more at https://bethaniehumphreys.com/