Jan Beatty

Jan Beatty is an American poet.

Career

Beatty’s poetry has appeared in "Quarterly West", "Gulf Coast", "Indiana Review", and "Court Green", and in anthologies published by Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, and University of Iowa Press. [ [http://www.janbeatty.com/bio.php janbeatty.com] ] Her first book, "Mad River", won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1994.

Beatty has received writing fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Yaddo. She was awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry from the Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council in 1990,the $15,000 Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation, and the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.

She currently the writing program at Carlow University, where she also directs the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshop. [ [http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=35900 BookDetails ] ] She has also taught creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Along with Ellen Wadey, Beatty hosts and produces "Prosody", a weekly radio program featuring the work of national writers.

Some of Beatty's poetry, considered sexually explicit, led to problems with a scheduled reading at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in April 2008. [ [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08113/875323-42.stm] post-gazette.com]

Born in 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she received her B.A. from the West Virginia University and her M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. Beatty currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband, musician Don Hollowood. [ [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_63605.html Poet Jan Beatty, in her own words - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ] ]

Published works

* "Red Sugar", poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008).
* "Boneshaker", poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002).
* "Mad River", poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995).
* "Ravenous", poetry chapbook (Brockport, NY: State Street Press, 1995).

External links

* [http://www.janbeatty.com/index.php JanBeatty.com]
* [http://www.janbeatty.com/JanBeattyCV.pdf Curriculum Vitae]
* [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08113/875323-42.stm Bookstore and poet in war of words over reading]
* [http://www.writersnewsweekly.com/jan_beatty_joseph-beth_05_06_08.html For Better or Verse: Bookstore Says Go, Poet Says No]

References

ources

"Contemporary Authors Online". The Gale Group, 2007. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000074923.