Sandra Beasley

@sandrabeasley.bsky.social

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Author of four poetry collections (most recently Made to Explode, published by W. W. Norton in 2021) and a disability memoir (Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life). Freelancer, teacher, poetry editor for Blair, & DC resident.

View of an office with cherry wood desk and shelves, computer equipment, personal items. Desk is next to a window with mid-day light.
Potted plant with spiky trunk and tall, thin green leaves. Positioned in front of a window with street view. Rainbow flag hanging to left.
Photo is taken inside a bookstore. Close up of a book on a stand. The cover shows that it is All These Ghosts by Silas House, with a card beneath that has a bookseller's review, including the phrase "I love this book!!!!!"
Upper right corner image is of Blair Publisher logo. Text: Wren Poetry Prize Last Call, Closing Nov. 15 (capped at 300). The Wren Poetry Prize is for a first, second, or third full-length poetry collection. Judged by Sandra Beasley. Bottom right corner image is photo of Sandra Beasley.
Text: The Ivy Bookshop presents.... Steven Leyva with Sandra Beasley 5.19.25 - 6 PM - On the Patio Author photos are of Leyva, a man with black skin tone wearing a red sweater and blue collared shirt, and Beasley, a white woman. Both are looking at the camera in close-up. The book's cover art is a designed image that emphasizes a "mirror" reality of above and below, and includes roses and a spiral staircase. The larger image has a light green background with ivy decorative elements.
Text - Lit Box: Book Vending Machine Launch Celebration Saturday, May 17, 3-4 p.m. With Books by Local DC/DMV-area Authors And Readings from: Sandra Beasley - Poetry Kyoko Mori - Memoir Martha Anne Toll - Fiction Western Market 2000 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC Graphic of LitBox shows an open-window front (inside blank) with a decorative edge based on the D.C. flag. Side of LitBox shows a collage of iconic DC images including the Washington Monument, Capitol, Walt Whitman, and Martin Luther King Jr, with a typewriter superimposed in the center.
Photograph taken from the sidewalk at night looking up at a very tall tree, with small white bulb lights strung all around its trunk and through its branches. The tree sits in front of a three-story white brick building. There is also a lit street lamp and black wrought iron fencing in view.
A white woman with mid-length brown hair is looking directly at the camera and grinning. Her hands are brought togther in front of her and tipped under her chin. She has orange sunglasses set on top of her head, hoop earrings, and a blue-and-green Southern Foodways Alliance lanyard around her neck.