During March, the BG News Team is excited to celebrate Women’s History Month, and highlight the influences that women have had on the community. Here are four female authors with ties to BGSU.
Beth Macy
Beth Macy is an investigative journalist and a New York Times best-selling author, her 2018 book “Dopesick.” “Dopesick” explores the opioid crisis across the United States. Macy attended BGSU as a first-generation college student, graduating in 1986 with a degree in journalism. Macy has written several other books including “Paper Girl” (2025), “Raising Lazaurus” (2022), “Truevine” (2016), “Finding Tess” (2019) and “Factory Man” (2014). Macy came back to BGSU to give the 2018 College of Arts and Sciences commencement speech.
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Monica McFawn Robinson
Monica McFawn Robinson is an author and an associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Robinson graduated with her bachelor’s in creative writing from BGSU in 2001. Robinson writes her stories inspired by the world around her and in 2013 her story collection “Bright Shards of Someplace Else” won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. The Flannery O’Connor Award is a prestigious annual literary competition put on by the University of Georgia Press, which works to recognize up and coming and established writers.
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Erin Carlyle
Erin Carlyle is an author and poet who earned both a master’s in literary and textual studies and a master’s in creative writing at BGSU. Carlyle currently teaches English at Georgia State University, where she is pursuing her PhD in creative writing. In 2024, Carlyle’s poetry collection “Girl at the End of the World” was published, exploring addiction, grief, poverty and highlighting the author’s growth through girlhood.
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Abigail Cloud
Abigail Cloud is a BGSU faculty member, teaching English courses focused in creative writing, poetry and editing. She also graduated from BGSU with a master’s in poetry. Cloud also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of “Mid-American Review,” which is a nationally distributed literary journal that prints creative writing by authors from all over the nation. In 2014, Cloud’s debut poetry collection “Sylph” won the Lena-Miles Weaver Todd Prize.
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