Jan Beatty
Born	1952 (age 73–74) Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Language	English
Alma mater	West Virginia University (BA) University of Pittsburgh (MFA)
Genre	Poetry
Website
www.janbeatty.com

Jan Beatty is an American poet. She is a recipient of theAgnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and the Creative Achievement Award in Literature.

Born in 1952 inPittsburgh,Pennsylvania, she received herBachelor of Arts from theWest Virginia University and herMaster of Fine Arts from theUniversity of Pittsburgh. She currently resides inPittsburgh,Pennsylvania, with her husband, musician Don Hollowood.^[1]

Her most recent poetry collection isThe Switching/Yard (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), and her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines includingQuarterly West,Gulf Coast,Indiana Review, andCourt Green, and in anthologies published by Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, and University of Iowa Press.^[2] Her honors include fellowships from theUcross Foundation, thePennsylvania Council on the Arts, andYaddo. She was awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry from the Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council in 1990, and the $15,000 Creative Achievement Award in Literature from theHeinz Foundation. Her first book,Mad River, won theAgnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize of theUniversity of Pittsburgh Press in 1994. Some of Beatty's poetry, considered sexually explicit, led to problems with a scheduled reading atJoseph-Beth Booksellers in April 2008.^[3]

Beatty currently heads the writing program atCarlow University, where she also directs the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshop.^[4] She has also taught creative writing at theUniversity of Pittsburgh. Along with Ellen Wadey, Beatty hosts and producesProsody, a weekly radio program featuring the work of national writers.

• American Bastard, poetry (Red Hen Press, 2021)^[5]
• The Body Wars, poetry (Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).
• Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, poetry (Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017).
• The Switching/Yard, poetry (Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013).
• Ravage, poetry chapbook (Lefty Blondie Press, 2012).
• Red Sugar, poetry (Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008).
• Boneshaker, poetry (Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002).
• Mad River, poetry (Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995).
• Ravenous, poetry chapbook (Brockport, NY: State Street Press, 1995).

• 1994Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
• 1990 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry from the Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council
• Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the H. J. Heinz Foundation

Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2007. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000074923.

• JanBeatty.com
• Curriculum VitaeArchived 2010-04-14 at theWayback Machine
• Bookstore and poet in war of words over reading
• For Better or Verse: Bookstore Says Go, Poet Says No

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• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners
• Poets from Pennsylvania
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• University of Pittsburgh alumni
• Writers from Pittsburgh
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American women poets

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