Sandra Beasley is the author of four poetry collections, beginning with Theories of Falling (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008), which won the New Issues Poetry Prize in a judging by Marie Howe. I Was the Jukebox (W. W. Norton, 2010) won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo, and was followed by Count the Waves (Norton, 2015) and Made to Explode (Norton, 2021). She also wrote Don't Kill the Birthday Girl, a disability memoir and cultural history of food allergies, and edited the anthology Vinegar and Char. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 2015.
