Bethany Dixon

Bethany Dixon is a writer, baker, and pianist living in Ithaca, NY. She works in a tower of books at Cornell’s Olin Library by day, crafting poems and pastries by night. Her poetry has been published in the Connecticut River Review, with work forthcoming in the North American Review and For Women Who Roar. Bethany’s current work focuses on reclaiming female narratives from ancient Greek texts. The fierce resiliency of so many women she knows and loves, as well as her own, seems inextricably woven through these ancient stories. Bethany is determined to try to sing back that bone-deep music of myth, to inhabit the internal and external landscape of memory and grief that is ever-shifting but ever-relevant. This landscape feels as present to her in Bishop as it does in Homer. Both in and out of myths, she is drawn to the tangible eros of the natural world that unfolds under rapt awareness and gratitude – flowers, textures, senses, and elements. You can find her on social media as @themoderncirce.