Sandra Beasley is the author of Made to Explode (forthcoming 2021); Count the Waves; I Was the Jukebox, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; Theories of Falling, winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize; and Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, a disability memoir. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Virginia Quarterly Review, and several anthologies. She lives in Washington, D.C.