From the Directory of Writers

Sandra Beasley

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet
Washington, DC

Sandra Beasley is the author of two poetry collections. I Was the Jukebox was selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize and will be published in April 2010. Her first collection, Theories of Falling, was selected by Marie Howe as the winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize and published in April 2008. Her poems have also been featured in Poetry Daily and Verse Daily and in journals such as Poetry, SLATE, The Believer, and Barrelhouse. She lives in Washington, D.C., where her nonfiction has been featured in the Washington Post Magazine. She is at work on Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, forthcoming from Crown. She also serves on the Board of the Writer's Center and as the Literary Chair for the Arts Club of Washington.