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.

I Was the Jukebox: Poems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010), Theories of Falling (New Issues Press, 2008)

Best American Poetry (Scribner, 2010), i.e. reader (http://narrow-house.blogspot.com/, 2010), Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Books, 2007), Best New Poets 2005 (Samovar Press, 2005)

32 Poems, Agni Online, Barrelhouse, Believer, Black Warrior Review, Blackbird, Blue Fifth Review, Cimarron Review, Coconut Poetry, Eleventh Muse, Florida Review, Foursquare, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, Inkwell, Meridian, New Orleans Review, Passages North, Pebble Lake Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Poetry, Potomac Review, Reed Magazine, Rhino Magazine, Slate, The Normal School