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Shaindel Beers
Shaindel Beers is an American poet, fiction writer, and editor. She attended Huntingdon College (as a Wilson Scholar), the University of Chicago, and Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has taught at colleges and universities in Illinois and Florida and currently teaches at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon.

Beers' work has appeared in dozens of literary journals and anthologies. Publications include:

Books: A Brief History of Time (Salt, 2009), The Children's War (Salt, forthcoming)

Anthologies: Just Like a Girl (GirlChild Press, 2008), Open Windows III (Ghost Road Press, 2008), ''Woman. Period. (Spinsters Ink, 2008), Alternatives to Surrender (Plain View Press, 2007), I Am This Meat'' (Susurrus Press, 2007)

Journals: A Prairie Home Companion, applevalleyreview.com, Arabesques Press, Damselfly Press, Dana Literary Society On-line Journal, DuPage Arts Life, E2k: a journal for the new literary paradigm, Eleventh Muse, Hot Metal Press, Hunger Mountain, Ignavia, Minnesota Review, Moon Journal, New Verse News, Poetry Miscellany, Projectedletters, The World's Literary Magazine, Red Fez, Sub-Lit, Swell, Talkin' Blues, Tipton Poetry Journal, Trellis, Willow Review, Women in Judaism

Beers grew up in Argos, Indiana. Her work frequently takes place in the Midwest and addresses issues of gender and social class.

Beers is the Poetry Editor and one of the founding editors of Contrary Magazine []

Shaindel Beers' entry at Poets & Writers' Directory of Writers http://www.pw.org/content/shaindel_beers

Shaindel Beers' short story "The Gift" at Tattoo Highway http://www.tattoohighway.org/16/sbegift.html

Shaindel Beers' poem, "First Love" at the Prairie Home Companion website: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/first_person/2007/12/04_beers.shtml

Shaindel Beers' short story "Longing on Hwy 10" at Compass Rose: http://www.chestercollege.edu/compassrose/spring2007/LongingOnHwy10.pdf

Shaindel Beers' poem "The Thermophobic's Wife" at the minnesota review: http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns68/beers2.shtml