Betsy Teter is a founder of Spartanburg’s Hub City Writers Project and served as its executive director for 22 years. In 2017, she received the Governor’s Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award for contribution to the arts in South Carolina. Her written work has appeared in Outside, Utne Reader, Blue Ridge Quarterly, and several Hub City books. Prior to her time at Hub City, she was a reporter and editor at five newspapers in the Carolinas.