In 2017 Dodgers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller and British Book Award in the Crime and Thrillers category, as well as the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
He studied at Oberlin College and the University of Florida,[2] where he earned a Ph.D. in American literature for his work on criminal fugitive stories, research that became the basis for his first book, On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America.
[3] Between 2003 and 2012, Beverly was a contributing editor with 32 Poems, a poetry magazine founded by publisher Deborah Ager and poetry editor John Poch.
His first novel, Dodgers, was published in 2016 by Crown Publishing in North America, by No Exit Press in the United Kingdom, by Southside Stories in Sweden and by Editions Seuil in France.
[3] Beverly and his wife, the poet and writer Deborah Ager, live in Hyattsville, Maryland.