Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley is the author of four poetry collections: Made in Explode; Count the Waves; 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. She is also the author of Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a disability memoir and cultural history of food allergies. In 2018, she edited the anthology Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance. Her freelance nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Psychology Today.

Awards for her work includes a 2015 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, five fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH), two DCCAH Larry Neal Writers Awards, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and the C.P. Cavafy Prize from Poetry International. In spring 2019, she traveled to Ireland as the John Montague International Poetry Fellow, hosted by Munster Literature Centre and University College Cork.

Beasley lives in Washington, D.C. For more information, please visit www.SandraBeasley.com, follow her on Twitter and Instagram as @SandraBeasley, or check out her Author page on Facebook.