Betsy Merbitz

Betsy Merbitz is a Chicago-based writer. She has been a featured performer at Homolatte and the Charm City Kitty Club, and a previous semi-finalist in the Guild Literary Complex Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards poetry competition. Her work has been published in S/He Speaks: Voices of Women and Trans Folx, Santa Clara Review, and Querencia. She works as a midwife, massage therapist, and herbalist.