Jo Ann Beard (born 1955) is an American essayist.
Jo Ann Beard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 (age 68–69) Moline, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa |
| Genre | Essay |
| Employer | Sarah Lawrence College |
Life
editBeard was born in 1955 in Moline, Illinois.[1] She graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA degree in art, and from the Nonfiction Writing Program with an MFA in creative nonfiction. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.[2]
Beard previously worked as a managing editor for a physics journal at the University of Iowa, and was a colleague of the victims of the University of Iowa shooting, which became a subject for her work.
Her writing has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Tin House and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Awards
edit- 1997: Whiting Award
- 2005: Guggenheim Fellow[3]
Works
editEssays
edit- "The Fourth State of Matter", The New Yorker, June 24, 1996
- "Undertaker, Please Drive Slow", Tin House, Issue #12, Summer 2002[4]
- "Maybe It Happened", O, The Oprah Magazine, August 2008
- "The Longest Night: Saying Goodbye to My Beloved Pet", O, The Oprah Magazine, June 2009
Books
edit- The Boys of My Youth. Little Brown & Co. 1999. ISBN 978-0-316-08525-0.
- In Zanesville. 2011.
- Festival Days. Little Brown & Co. 2021.
- Cheri. Serpent's Tail. 2023.
Anthology contributions
edit- Ian Frazier; Robert Atwan, eds. (1997). Best American Essays of 1997. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-85694-9.
- David Foster Wallace; Robert Atwan, eds. (October 10, 2007). The Best American Essays 2007. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-70927-4.
- Lex Williford; Michael Martone, eds. (2007). "The Fourth State of Matter". Touchstone anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction: work from 1970 to the present. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-3174-6.
- Marybeth Bond; Pamela Michael, eds. (2004). "Out There". A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 978-1-932361-14-8.
References
edit- ^ Chilton, Martin (July 2023). "Books of the Month: From Anne Enright's The Wren, The Wren to Wifedom by Anna Funder". The Independent.
- ^ "Writing Faculty - Sarah Lawrence College". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
- ^ "Jo Ann Beard – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
- ^ Beard, Jo Ann (Summer 2002). "Undertaker, Please Drive Slow". Tin House. 12.
External links
edit- "Meet a rare creature: the wholly talented, wholly modest Jo Ann Beard", Book Page, February 1998
- "A Conversation with Jo Ann Beard", nidus, No. 3 Fall 2002.
- "Jo Ann Beard Interviewed by Michael Gardner", Mary Literary Journal
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- "The Essay That Made Jo Ann Beard Want to Write Nonfiction", The New York Times, March 11, 2021.
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