Sandra Beasley

Author's Bio

Sandra Beasley is the author of two poetry collections: I Was the Jukebox, selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Theories of Falling, selected by Marie Howe as the winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. Her poems appeared in such journals as The Believer, Poetry, Tin House, and the Best American Poetry 2010. She is also an essayist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine and The Oxford American. In 2010, Crown published her memoir Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a cultural history of food allergy. She lives in Washington, DC.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, 2011), I Was the Jukebox: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010), Theories of Falling (New Issues Press, 2008)

Anthologies:

The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013), 2011 New California Writing (Heyday Books, 2011), 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)

Journals:

32 Poems, Agni, Agni Online, Barrelhouse, Believer, Black Warrior Review, Blackbird, Blue Fifth Review, Cimarron Review, Coconut Poetry, Columbia Poetry Review, 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, The Oxford American, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review

Prizes:

In 2013 she served as the Writer in REsidence at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Other honors include a 2012 Larry Neal Writers Award and a 2010 Individual Artist Fellowship (both from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities), the 2009 Friends of Literature Prize (from the Poetry Foundation), the 2008 Maureen Egen Exchange Award (from Poets & Writers), the 2006 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize (from Passages North), and the 2005 Myra Sklarew Award for Outstanding Thesis (from American University). She has also received fellowships to the Jentel Artist Residency, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Virginia Center for Creative Artists, Vermont Studio Center, the Indiana Writers' Conference, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, where she was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in 2008.

Sandra Beasley Resume

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Listing last updated: March 1, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Vienna, VA

Raised in:

Vienna, VA

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