Bethany Hudson

Writer | Scholar

ABOUT

Bethany Hudson is a writer and scholar based in Rochester, NY. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from the University of Washington, Bothell, and a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California. Her short fiction can be found in Isele Magazine, and her work often engages with archival forms, the ethical limits of self-definition, and questions of who gets to make and hold meaning. She is currently working on her debut literary novel, Beautiful Forms.

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What’s your book about?

Beautiful Forms

After an infertility diagnosis reveals a profound biological entanglement, a married couple must reckon with the ethical limits of intimacy, asking what it means to live inside an identity that cannot be chosen.

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“In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro