Jo Ann Beard

Jo Ann Beard is an American essayist.

Jo Ann Beard
Born1955 (age 67–68)
Moline, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Iowa
GenreEssay

Life

Beard was born in 1955, Moline, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA in art, and from The Nonfiction Writing Program with an MFA in creative nonfiction. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.[1]

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.

Awards

Works

Essays

Books
  • 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.

Anthologies
  • 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
  1. "Writing Faculty - Sarah Lawrence College". Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  2. "Jo Ann Beard – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2010-01-05.
  3. Beard, Jo Ann (Summer 2002). "Undertaker, Please Drive Slow". Tin House. 12.
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