Betsy Mars

Betsy Mars is a poet, photographer, and occasional publisher who has published work in Verse-Virtual across several years. She founded Kingly Street Press and edited the anthology Unsheathed: 24 Contemporary Poets Take Up the Knife. Her poems have also appeared in San Pedro River Review, Kissing Dynamite, Better Than Starbucks, and Live Encounters, which describes her as a poet, photographer, and occasional publisher. She has a chapbook, Alinea, and a co-written book with Alan Walowitz, In the Muddle of the Night, from Arroyo Seco Press. Her poem Pyriscence won a 2020 Alexandria Quarterly First Line Poetry Contest Series award.