Genevieve Beltran, TWH 2026 Directors Assistant (Fiction)

An attendee of The Writer’s Hotel during its second year, Genevieve Beltran is thrilled to be returning to the conference as a member of staff. The recipient of the 2023 Bread Loaf returning contributor in nonfiction award, she writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A former fertility goddess, Genevieve met her husband at eighteen, married at twenty-two, and gave birth to her fifth child at twenty-eight. She became a widow at the age of sixty. Shortly before her dying husband entered home hospice care, Genevieve began writing A Remnant of a Shattered Vase, a memoir in vignettes that her literary agent currently has out on submission. A book that Clarie Cameron—author of several bestsellers, including the novel The Last Neanderthal and the memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack—says is “an elegant, forthright, and heart-wrenching examination about learning to let go.”

A former fertility goddess, Gmet her husband at eighteen, married at twenty-two, and gave birth to her fifth child at twenty-eight. She became a widow at the age of sixty. A retired schoolteacher and grandmother of six, Genevieve spends her days reading, writing, and babysitting grandchildren while plotting her next escape from domesticity. While she dreams of one day moving to the East Coast, she currently resides in her hometown of Stockton, California. An attendee of The Writer Hotel during its second year, she is thrilled to be returning to the conference this time as a member of staff. The recipient of the 2023 Bread Loaf returning contributor in nonfiction award, she writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Shortly before her dying husband entered home hospice care, Genevieve began writing A Remnant of a Shattered Vase, a memoir in vignettes that her agent currently has out on submission.