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Sandra Beasley

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Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton. Her debut book, Theories of Falling, was selected by Marie Howe as the winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2008). Her poetry has been featured in the Best American Poetry 2010, and her nonfiction has been featured in the Washington Post Magazine. In July, Crown will publish Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales From an Allergic Life , a memoir and cultural history of food allergies. When not traveling for readings and residencies, Beasley lives in Washington, DC, where she serves on the faculty of the Writer's Center.



On May 10, I trekked downtown to the Rayburn Building to witness Allergy & Asthma Day Capitol Hill 2012, sponsored by AANMA (Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics). It was inspiring to see a room crowded to overflowing with doctors, concerned parents, and congressional staff, all talking through the FDA's proposed changes to how allergy medications are prescribed. To summarize t... read more »
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Average rating: 3.69 · 860 ratings · 247 reviews · 3 distinct works
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“You are that moment before falling, the falling,
a whir of falling, a wail of falling, the sweet
thud.”
Sandra Beasley, Theories of Falling

“I was tired of eating baked chicken and boiled vegetables, tired of having to be careful all the time, tired of being broken. Shots hadn't fixed me. Was I fixable? Was I fit to survive?

Sandra Beasley”
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Pamela Hey Sandra...Thanks for accepting my friend request.


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