Jo Ann Beard

Jo Ann Beard
Born	1955 (age 68–69) Moline, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Iowa
Genre	Essay

Jo Ann Beard is an American essayist.

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Life

Beard was born in 1955 in Moline, Illinois.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[1]

Beard previously worked as a managing 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 literary journals and magazines.

Awards

1997 Whiting Award
2005 Guggenheim Fellow^[2]

Works

Essays

"The Fourth State of Matter", The New Yorker, June 24, 1996
"Undertaker, Please Drive Slow," Tin House, Issue #12, Summer 2002^[3]
"Maybe It Happened", O, The Oprah Magazine, August 2008
"The Longest Night: Saying Goodbye to My Beloved Pet", O, The Oprah Magazine, June 2009

Books

The Boys of My Youth. Little Brown & Co. 1999. ISBN 978-0-316-08525-0.
In Zanesville. 2011.
Festival Days. Little Brown & Co. 2021.
Cheri. Serpent's Tail. 2023.

Anthologies

Ian Frazier; Robert Atwan, eds. (1997). Best American Essays of 1997. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-85694-9.
David Foster Wallace; Robert Atwan, eds. (October 10, 2007). The Best American Essays 2007. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-70927-4.
Lex Williford; Michael Martone, eds. (2007). "The Fourth State of Matter". Touchstone anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction: work from 1970 to the present. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-3174-6.
Marybeth Bond; Pamela Michael, eds. (2004). "Out There". A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust. Travelers' Tales. ISBN 978-1-932361-14-8.