Jo Ann Beard
Jo Ann Beard is an American essayist.Life
Beard was born in 1955, Chicago, 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 an 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 Tin House and The New Yorker.Awards
Essays
- , The New Yorker, June 24, 1996
- "Undertaker, Please Drive Slow," Tin House, Issue #12, Summer 2002
- , O, The Oprah Magazine, August 2008
- , O, The Oprah Magazine, June 2009
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