Jan Beatty is the author of eight books, including the forthcoming Dragstripping. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award. Other books include Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, which received the Paterson Poetry Prize and was named Sandra Cisneros’s favorite book of 2019. Beatty has worked as a waitress, an abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons. She is Professor Emerita at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, where she directed the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops and the MFA program. She is a contributor to Texas, Being: A State of Poems. Her most recent book is The Body Wars, praised by The New York Times: “…Beatty’s new poems shimmer with luminous connection, travel a big life and grand map of encounters.”
