Shaindel Rebekah Beers Poet, Fiction Writer, Editor

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Author Biography

Shaindel Beers’ poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.
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Influences

There are so many great writers, it's impossible to name them all, but I hope that in my poetry, readers can see glimpses of Anne Sexton, Anne Carson, Eavan Boland, and Richard Jackson.

In fiction, I would be pleased if readers can spot moments that remind them of Lorrie Moore and Ellen Gilchrist.

Favorite Books

This is always a dangerous question to ask a writer. My first graduate degree is specializing in 19th Century British literature, so that explains some of my answers: Middlemarch and Wuthering Heights for that era.

Other influential books--If On a Winter's Night, A Traveler by Italo Calvino, Birds of America by Lorrie Moore.

Poetry collections--Transformations by Anne Sexton and Glass, Irony, and God by Anne Carson.

Favorite Authors

Lorrie Moore, Italo Calvino, Anne Sexton, Anne Carson, Eavan Boland, and Richard Jackson.

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A Brief History of Time

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Issue/Publication: Damselfly Press (First Issue)

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Here is the first paragraph:

Daniel had kept the ad with him for weeks—at first figuratively. He chanted it like a mantra on the bus as he gripped the aluminum bar, pretending not to notice the BO of the blonde who was always on the 6, and who consumed enough coffee that it leaked from her pores. ISO ARTIST IN NEED OF INSPIRATION. RACE, AGE, SEX NOT IMPORTANT. It had been a lonely little ad nestled among the abstruse acronyms that had become the new personals lingo over the last few years: Bi-c-F iso LBTQ F, C or P acceptable, prefer J. He didn’t even know what they meant anymore.

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