Writers Corner: Jan Beatty with American Bastard

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English - October 12, 2022 21:21 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MB
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Jan Beatty is the winner of the Red Hen Nonfiction Award for her memoir, American Bastard (2021). Her sixth book, The Body Wars (2020), was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. In the New York Times, Naomi Shihab Nye said: Jan Beatty’s new poems in “The Body Wars” shimmer with luminous connection, travel a big life and grand map of encounters.

Books include

Jackknife: New and Collected Poems (2018 Paterson Prize) named by Sandra Cisneros on LitHub as her favorite book of 2019.

Awards include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Discovery/The Nation Prize finalist, Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Paterson Prize, $10,000 Artists Grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation, and a $15,000 Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation.

Books:

American Bastard

Get the book here on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/32LktTm

ASIN: 1597098787

The Body Wars

Get the book here on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/3D5f85N

ASIN: 0822966247

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