Bio

Mary Beth Rew Hicks is a marine biologist and writer on the Oregon coast. A creative nonfiction graduate of the Mountainview MFA of Southern New Hampshire University, she is working on a memoir about women and whales. She was a finalist for the 2023 Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Contest put on by Cutthroat Magazine, and a finalist for the 2024 december magazine creative nonfiction contest. Her writing has been published in Selkie and Assignment. You can also read her work on her Substack Sea Cow.