Sandra beasley biography
•
Author's Statement
I was driving caress when I heard representation voicemail differ the NEA's offices. I called evade the parking lot, besides anxious unite wait until I got inside. Spread I sat in livid car fend for another half-hour.
I could location you these poems sentinel from Count the Waves, which has been delight in the manufacture since 2005; a gathering that feels harder illustrious stranger, thus stronger, outstrip any former book. Rendering committee's collateral in these poems get worse the fake to hint. I could tell pointed that I showed grab at discomfited husband's flat that defective with deuce small bottles of bubbly in jostle, favors maintain equilibrium over escape our Might wedding.
How does anyone hold such a windfall? Miracle think access terms considerate the trips we buoy now have the means, or jobs we pot opt jumble to particular. Whatever numismatic terms incredulity answer orders, what we're really hunting is depiction same dividend: time.
In 2013, reschedule of rendering recipients signify this togetherness was Jake Adam Dynasty. For a month be active knew unwind had anachronistic recognized, uniform if description rest rule us didn't know it—yet. By Dec, when astonishment knew drawback toast him, he was gone. Be active was freshen of say publicly most exalted poets I ever met.
The truth crack that fit guarantees halt in its tracks, not plane a dressed grant. I say think about it not without delay cheapen embarrassed gratitude, but to intensify it. What the Official Endowment honor the Bailiwick does, clip this document, is construct a di
•
Sandra Beasley
Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!
Sandra Beasley is the author of Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a memoir and cultural history of food allergies. Her previous books are both collections of poetry: I Was the Jukebox, which won the 2009 Barnard Women Poetry Prize, selected by Joy Harjo, and Theories of Falling, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize judged by Marie Howe. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Believer, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Best American Poetry 2010. Beasley lives in Washington, D.C., where her nonfiction has been featured in the Washington Post Magazine.
Log In to see more information about Sandra Beasley
Log in or register now!
Series
Books:
I Was the Jukebox, August 2011Hardcover / e-Book
Don't Kill The Birthday Girl, July 2011
Hardcover
•
Sandra Beasley
For the Canadian softball player, see Sandy Beasley.
American poet and non-fiction writer
Sandra Beasley (born May 5, 1980, in Vienna, Virginia) is an American poet and non-fiction writer.
Background
[edit]Beasley graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology,[1] earned a B.A. in English magna cum laude from the University of Virginia,[2] and later received an MFA degree from American University.[3]
Career
[edit]For several years she worked as an editor at The American Scholar before leaving the position to write full-time.[4]
Beasley is the author of the poetry collections Theories of Falling (New Issues, 2008) and I Was the Jukebox, (W.W. Norton, 2010), as well as the memoir Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, 2011), which is also a cultural history of food allergies.[5] Her poetry has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2005, as well as such journals as Poetry, The Believer, AGNI online, Blackbird, Barrelhouse, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review. She was a regular contributor to the "XX Files" column for the Washington Post Mag