Through writing, song and story-telling, Mary Beth Stevens has spent a good portion of her life searching for just the right words.

 

Her poetry is inspired by memory and the magic of everyday moments and things, and in 2026 she was awarded a mentorship opportunity to work with Distinguished Poet Lee Stockdale as part of the NC Poetry Society’s Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series.

 

Mary Beth was recently accepted into Queens University of Charlotte’s Master of Fine Arts program in Poetry and she lives in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains with her sculptor husband, three dogs and one long-suffering cat.