Jo Ann Beard
Introduction '''Jo Ann Beard''' is an American essayist.
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.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 * 1997 Whiting Award* 2005 Guggenheim Fellow
Works ===Essays===* "The Fourth State of Matter", ''The New Yorker'', June 24, 1996*"Undertaker, Please Drive Slow," ''Tin House'', Issue #12, Summer 2002* "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===* * * * ===Anthologies===* * **
References
External links * "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*https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/books/review/jo-ann-beard-by-the-book-interview.html