She majored in English at the University of Florida before earning her M.F.A. in Graphic Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She combined her love for both verbal and visual communication as Senior Editorial Designer at Rowland Publishing in Tallahassee, Fla., where she worked for five years on a variety of magazine titles and special publication projects. Beth taught briefly as an adjunct professor at Florida A&M University before moving to Jacksonville and joining UNF as a full-time faculty member. She takes great delight in traveling, photography, visual rhetoric, typographic mugs, ampersands & Bono