Beth Steidle is a writer, illustrator, and book designer. She is the author of The Static Herd and Topos (winner of the Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize). Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have also appeared in Gulf Coast, Fairy Tale Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, Drunken Boat, and Indiana Review (finalist for the 1/2K Prize). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination and a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
She is also the owner of Scylla Paper Company, where she designs for print using digital, offset, and handmade processes. Her clients include Tin House, W. W. Norton & Company, New Vessel Press, McNally Jackson Books, and others. Her design and production work has received awards from the New York Book Show.
She lives in Brooklyn, NY.