Biography & Contact

Shaindel Rebekah Beers
Poet, Fiction Writer, Editor

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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.

Causes I Support

Save the Children, ASPCA, Defenders of Wildlife, The Sierra Club, and The World Wildlife Fund

University Affiliation

I currently teach full-time for Blue Mountain Community College.

Agents

I am not currently represented by a literary agent or agency.

Publishers

Salt Publishing

Contact Publishers

For inquiries, please contact Chris Hamilton-Emery at chris@saltpublishing.com .

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.

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...