Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley (born May 5, 1980, in Vienna, Virginia) is an American poet and non-fiction writer.
Background
Beasley graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, earned a B.A. in English magna cum laude from the University of Virginia, and later received an MFA degree from American University. For several years she worked as an editor at The American Scholar before leaving the position to write full-time.
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. 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 Magazine and more recently her prose has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Psychology Today. She has received fellowships to the University of Mississippi (as the Summer Poet in Residence), the Sewanee Writers' Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship), and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (two Cafritz Fellowships), among others honors. She serves on the Board for the Writer's Center and is also a member of the Arts Club of Washington.
Honors and awards
2015 Cavafy Prize from Poetry International
2010 Summer Poet in Residence fellowship at the University of Mississippi
2010 LegalArt Residence
2010 Artist Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2009 Friends of Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation
2009 Cafritz Fellowship to Virginia Center for Creative Arts
2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo
2008 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference
2008 Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poets & Writers
2007 New Issues Poetry Prize, selected by Marie Howe
2006 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize from Passages North at Northern Michigan University
2005 Cafritz Fellowship to Virginia Center for Creative Arts
Published works
Translated works
Die Abtastnadel in der Rille eines traurigen Lieds. Selected poems. Bilingual edition (German, English). Berlin: Hochroth Press, 2011. pp. 28.
References
External links
Author's website
Author's "Chicks Dig Poetry" blog
Interview: "Q&A: Sandra Beasley says allergies can bring out insensitivity in others" The Globe & Mail July 19, 2011
Interview: "Sandra Beasley: On Food Allergies, Rituals, and Inclusion"> Her Circle > Shana Thornton, July 12, 2011
Interview: "Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley" Southern Spaces September 22, 2011.
Poems: The Plays of Lilliput; The Mangrove House; The Parade, Delaware Poetry Review
Poems: The Angels; My Los Alamos; Fireproof, Coconut 8
Poets from Virginia
People from Vienna, Virginia
University of Virginia alumni
American University alumni
Living people
Poets from Washington, D.C.
1980 births
American women poets
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology alumni
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers