INTERVIEWS

The Interview: Sandra Beasley
An Award-winning Poet & Writer

The Wise Owl talks to Sandra Beasley, an award-winning poet & author. Beasley is the author of the poetry collections Made to Explode (W.W. Norton, 2021), winner of the Housatonic Book Award, Count the Waves (W. W. Norton, 2015), Theories of Falling (New Issues, 2008), winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize, and I Was the Jukebox, (W.W. Norton, 2010), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize, as well as the memoir Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, 2011), which is a memoir and a cultural history of food allergies. She also edited Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance (University of Georgia Press, 2018). Her poetry has been in multiple anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and various prestigious journals.