Beth has retired from teaching creative writing for over 30 years at Mount Royal University. For her, these past few years have indubitably been the most challenging and the most productive for a while for her as a creative writer, not only for what she has written but for what she has learned along the way. Her most recent book, "Some of the Facts:Jasper:When Tales Were Told" is a work of fiction. All proceeds will go to the community of Jasper to help in the recovery from the devastating 2024 wildfire. "Silent Sister: the mastectomy poems," was short-listed for major awards including Alberta Magazine Publishers Association, the League of Canadian Poets Raymond Souster, the City of Calgary W.O.Mitchell, and ReLit. It went on to win the Book Publishers Association Robert Kroetsch Award. She continues to write fiction and poetry and to participate in the electrifying endeavour of PopUp poetry.