Beth Follett

Beth Follett is the founder, publisher and in-house editor of the Canadian literary publishing house, Pedlar Press (1996 to 2022). Her first novel, Tell It Slant (Coach House Books, 2001), was followed by YesNo (Fieldnotes, 2011), an essay in chapbook form, and two poetry chapbooks, Bone Hinged (paperplates, 2010) and A Thinking Woman Sleeps With Monsters (Apt. 9, 2014). Her second novel, Instructor, was released in 2021 by Breakwater Books. The novel was nominated for the NL Book Awards, Fiction (2022),  and was Winner (Bronze) in the Foreward Indies Fiction Award (2022). Her most recent chapbook of poems, Learning to Crawl and Other Poems (Apt. 9, 2024) received Honourary Mention in the most recent bpNichol Chapbook Award competition. Follett counselled survivors of sexual and physical abuse and people with suicidal ideation from 1975 to 1996. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador.