Beth M. Howard has been a journalist for more than 25 years specializing in personality profiles, adventure travel, and outdoor sports. She has written for Shape, Elle, Travel & Leisure, Fitness and many other magazines. She has worked as a senior editor for Sports Traveler and a contributing editor for Sports Illustrated Women. She has been a producer for MSN.com’s Women’s Channel and for MSNBC.com’s 2002 Winter Olympics official Web site. For six years she freelanced for Microsoft Corporation as the content editor for Bill Gates’ annual CEO Summit.

She began as a PR manager for a Hyatt Hotels mega-resort in Hawaii, which led to an account executive position at Rogers & Cowan in Los Angeles, where she launched the original hit TV series "Beverly Hills, 90210." At the age of 25, she started a gourmet coffee business in Nairobi, Kenya, living the life of a modern-day Karen Blixen. She marketed her award-winning coffee in Kenya and the U.S.

She received a Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, graduating in three years with an emphasis on communications and environmental studies. She has worked and lived throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. She continues to practice speaking French, Spanish, and German, though, admittedly, she gave up on Japanese and has forgotten most of her Swahili.

Currently, Beth is living in Eldon, Iowa, in the famous American Gothic House, where she runs the Pitchfork Pie Stand, writes for magazines, and is developing a TV/web series about pie. Her story and her blog, “The World Needs More Pie,” has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, New York Times, Readers Digest for iPad, Midwest Living, Spirit (SW Airlines’ in-flight magazine), and many other national publications.

Books by Beth M. Howard

Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie

by Beth M. Howard - Nonfiction

When journalist Beth M. Howard's young husband dies suddenly, she is forced to make some changes. She uses pie as a way to find purpose, when on the road and at home in Iowa. She creates the perfect synergy between two of America's greatest icons --- pie and the American Gothic House, the little farmhouse immortalized in Grant Wood's famous painting, where she now lives and runs the Pitchfork Pie Stand.