Jo Ann Beard
Jo Ann Beard is the author the collections Festival Days and The Boys of My Youth, and the novel In Zanesville. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and others, and has received a Whiting Foundation Award, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2022 Award in Literature. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
Books by Jo Ann Beard

Cheri
Jo Ann Beard
This heart wrenching novella honours all the wonders of life through the lens of one woman's journey towards death

The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard
Jo Ann Beard
Jo Ann Beard, one of the most influential writers in America, illuminates the complexities of the human condition in this career-spanning collection
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