Sandra Beasley

Sandra Beasley is FARE’s Director of Communications. She wrote Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a disability memoir and cultural history of food allergy. Her prose has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Psychology Today.

Beasley is the author of four poetry collections. Honors for her work include the Housatonic Book Award, the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She has held visiting professorships at multiple institutions including Davidson College, Hood College, and Wichita State University, and she served as adjunct faculty with the University of Nebraska Omaha and the University of Tampa.

From 2020-2022, she was the writer in residence at American University, where she received her MFA in creative writing in 2004. She holds a BA in English from the University of Virginia, magna cum laude. She lives in Washington, D.C.