Shaindel Rebekah Beers's Books
Feb.15.2013
In the first half of The Children’s War, Shaindel Beers looks at artwork done by and about child survivors of war, embodying the voices of the children, their families, and the humanitarian aid workers sent to help them. From there, the book opens out into an exploration of the war at home and the war within ourselves, exploring violence in mythology, domestic violence, and...
Jan.19.2009
A Brief History of Time, Beers’ first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide range of styles—from plainsong free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works.
The characters/speakers in Beers’ poems range from the rural working class to mythological...
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...
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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...