Bethany Schultz Hurst

Biography

Bethany Schultz Hurst is the author of Miss Lost Nation (Anhinga, 2014), finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the forthcoming Blueprint & Ruin (Southern Indiana, 2022), winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Narrative, and the Gettysburg Review.

See Work

POETRY / Spring 2022

In Which We Are Reconciled to Other Unfloatable Things

By Bethany Schultz Hurst

With the right sponge and brush, you could / paint these walls to look like marble. In the two-story / foyer, the previous owner left a giant painting / of southwestern pots.

POETRY / Spring 2022

Blueprint and Ruin (one need not be a house to be haunted)

By Bethany Schultz Hurst

When we moved with our first newborn / into this ’70s raised-ranch house, / I pretended some benevolent ghost / could soothe him.