Beasley is the author of the poetry collections Theories of Falling (New Issues, 2008) and I Was the Jukebox, (
W.W. Norton, 2010), as well as the memoir Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (
Crown, 2011), which is also a cultural history of food allergies.[5] Her poetry has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2005, as well as such journals as Poetry, The Believer, AGNI online, Blackbird, Barrelhouse, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review. She was a regular contributor to the "XX Files" column for the Washington Post Magazine[6][7] and more recently her prose has appeared in the Wall Street Journal[8] and Psychology Today. She has received fellowships to the University of Mississippi (as the Summer Poet in Residence),[9] the
Sewanee Writers' Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship), and
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (two Cafritz Fellowships), among others honors. She serves on the Board for the
Writer's Center and is also a member of the
Arts Club of Washington.
Die Abtastnadel in der Rille eines traurigen Lieds. Selected poems. Bilingual edition (German, English). Berlin: Hochroth Press, 2011. pp. 28.
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