Marybeth Sollins
Marybeth Sollins is a freelance writer and editor specializing in contemporary art, art history, Russian history, and natural history. She also provides pro bono editorial services to nonprofit organizations and publishers of scholarly books. In that capacity, since 2001, she has developed and edited six companion volumes to the Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award-winning PBS television series, Art:21—Art in the Twenty-first Century; was the editor of two volumes of regional field guides to the birds of Brazil published under the auspices of the Wildlife Conservation Society; and has developed and brought to publication a number of books on Russian art history and related subjects. Sollins graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in anthropology and literature, earned an MA in medieval English literature from Fordham University, and was a doctoral candidate at Fordham in medieval English dialects and literature.
She is an active participant in the field of bird conservation, is a former member of the board of the American Bird Conservancy, and has supported and participated in environmental education and place-based learning for elementary and middle-school students for many years. She also collaborates with Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology to create research and fellowship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in the field of ornithology.
Sollins is a trustee emeritus of the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust (EBMF). EBMF supports the legacy of the twentieth-century American composer Earle Brown, fosters the composition and performance of contemporary music, and develops and presents TIME:SPANS, an annual festival of contemporary music that takes place each August in New York.