beth robbins

Beth is a writer, an actor, a teacher, and a director.

She published her first book, A Grief Sublime, in 2019. A work of creative nonfiction, this genre-bending work opens at the moment Beth is informed of her husband’s sudden death in a car accident. The reader follows Beth as she navigates the liminal space in which she is thrust—in dialogue with poets she loved, and in a continued conversation with her husband. Following the release of the book, Beth has been an in-demand presenter, doing podcasts, interviews, author readings, and enjoying conversations (in person and through Zoom) around grief, love, and continued connection.

Beth made her acting debut in Sproutland, a fictional reimagining of Beth’s story directed by Academy Award winning director Cynthia Wade. The film will be released in 2021.

In June 2019, Beth founded Keats & Company Publishers. The company’s mission is to publish works from a diverse group of new and established voices. In a chaotic world that begs for movement beyond static boundaries, their writers’ words and experiences are portals to transformation. They shatter and redefine labels of fixed literary genres like fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and memoir. While not conventionally classifiable, Keats & Company writers command a public forum.

Beth lives in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts with her youngest son and her two cats. She has been a high school English and drama teacher at the Berkshire Waldorf High School for the last fifteen years and offers workshops and events around her book. She is currently working on her second novel.