Sandra Beasley is author of four poetry collections: Made to Explode; Count the Waves; I Was the Jukebox, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, judged by Joy Harjo; and Theories of Falling, winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by Marie Howe. Honors for her work include a 2015 NEA Literature Fellowship, the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize, the John Montague International Poetry Fellowship, and six DCCAH Artist Fellowships. She is also the author of the memoir Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, and the editor of Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance. She lives in Washington, D.C.