Bazaar Writers Salon Readings by Jan Beatty, Shangyang Fang, Benjamin Gucciardi, and Noah Warren Hosted by Peter Kline

Jan Beatty, author of AMERICAN BASTARD, will be reading at the Bazaar Writers Salon, hosted by Peter Kline.

Jan Beatty’s sixth book, The Body Wars, was published in 2020 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. In the New York Times, Naomi Shihab Nye said: “Jan Beatty’s new poems in The Body Wars shimmer with luminous connection, travel a big life and grand map of encounters.” Beatty won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award for her memoir, American Bastard, 2021. A chapbook, Skydog, is forthcoming from Lefty Blondie Press. Other books include Jackknife: New and Collected Poems (Paterson Prize), The Switching/Yard, Red Sugar, Boneshaker, Mad River (Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize). For many years, Beatty worked as a waitress, an abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons. She directs creative writing at Carlow University where she runs the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.