Shaindel Rebekah Beers's Biography
Member Info
Pendleton, Oregon
Feb 2009
Shaindel Beers’ poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon’s high desert and serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary (www.contrarymagazine.com). The Children’s War is her second poetry collection from Salt.
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.
Upcoming Works
My second full-length poetry collection, The Children's War and Other Poems, has just been released by Salt Publishing. I am at work on a short story collection and am always working on Contrary (www.contrarymagazine.com), where I am the Poetry Editor.
Agents
I am not currently represented by a literary agent or agency.
Recommended Links
Publishers
Salt Publishing
Interests & Hobbies
Reading, writing, running, enjoying the outdoors, taking part in all things liberal, spending time with my partner Jared and our son Liam.
With gem-hard language and heartrending imagery, Shaindel Beers dramatizes the lives of ordinary women and children devastated by physical and emotional violence.”
—Temple Cone, author of No Loneliness
About Shaindel
Shaindel Beers’ poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon’s high desert and serves as...
Connections
Causes Shaindel Beers Supports
Save the Children, ASPCA, Defenders of Wildlife, The Sierra Club, and The World Wildlife Fund
Shaindel’s 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...