Beth Spotswood

Beth Spotswood Daza (born January 28, 1978, in San Francisco, California), known professionally as Beth Spotswood, is a writer. Among the issues she addresses is gentrification.

Biography
Born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Mill Valley, California, Spotswood attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco and Philadelphia University graduating in 1996 and 2000, respectively. After graduating in 2000, she returned to San Francisco and began working at Steve Silver's now-defunct Beach Blanket Babylon in 2001.

She was hired by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2007 to write for their culture blog. Spotswood also wrote for the now-defunct San Francisco Appeal and VidSF. As of 2021, she is also the digital editor for Alta Magazine.

Spotswood lives in Novato, California, with her husband and son born in 2018.

Her father is former Mill Valley Mayor and current Marin Independent Journal columnist Dick Spotswood.