Portrait of Jan Beatty

Jan Beatty

Jan Beatty is the author of seven books, including the memoir American Bastard (Red Hen Press, 2021), which received the Red Hen Nonfiction Award, and Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series, 2017), which received the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize. She has worked as a waitress, a welfare caseworker, an abortion counselor, and in maximum-security prisons. (updated 4/2022)

AGNI has published the following work:

Lowrider

Poetry by Jan Beatty
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