Read Beverly’s Women Writing the West LAURA Award winning short story, “A Girl Named Egg.”
Meet Beverly Lionberger Hodgins
A native Oregonian and resident Washingtonian, in my writing life I’ve become a biographer, a historian, a poet, and a dabbler in screenwriting. My screenplay, Wayward Warrior–based on my husband’s Vietnam service years–placed as a semi-finalist in a past FilmMakers International Screenwriting competition and placed in the top 25 percent of the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards. My short story, “A Girl Named Egg,” was a third place plus publication winner of a Women Writing the West LAURA Short Fiction Award.
From 2007 until 2012, while living and working in Bremerton for the State of Washington Employment Security Department, I became the personal interest story writer of brief biographies about chosen employees. Each piece was published on Washington’s statewide employee intranet, accessible to over 100,000 readers.
The biography, The Shipyard Agent: Augusta Clawson and the Women Welders of World War II is my latest work, which is expected to launch in January 2026.
My debut biography, Mercy and Madness: Dr. Mary Archard Latham’s Tragic Fall from Female Physician to Felon, was released on April 1, 2022. Is this a joke? I remember thinking, when notified of the dubious publication date. Yet, it seemed appropriate considering that two years prior my book proposal acceptance e-mail arrived on a Friday, the 13th! But no joke, I’d done it. Despite my age, I had achieved a lifelong dream of becoming a published author. My first book was in the wild.
As a member of Women Writing the West (WWW), I served for three years as editor of the WWW Catalog of Authors’ Books final hardcopy editions. Other organizations of which I am a member are Western Writers of America, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Inland Northwest Writers Guild, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and The Westerners – Spokane Corral.
My research experiences are enhanced through membership in The Oregon Historical Society, Genealogical Forum of Oregon, Washington State Historical Society, Eastern Washington Genealogical Society, Spokane Public Library, and the Joel E. Ferris Research Archives at Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington.