Jo Ann Beard
American writer
Intro | American writer | |||
Places | United States of America | |||
is | Writer Essayist | |||
Work field | Literature | |||
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Birth | 1955, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA | |||
Age | 70 years | |||
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Jo Ann Beard is an American essayist.
Beard was born in 1955, Chicago, Illinois. 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.
Beard previously worked as an 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 Tin House and The New Yorker.