Jo Ann Beard (born 1955) is an American essayist.
[1] She graduated from the University of Iowa with a BFA degree in art, and from the Nonfiction Writing Program with an MFA in creative nonfiction.
[2] Beard previously worked as a managing editor for a physics journal at the University of Iowa, and was a colleague of the victims of the University of Iowa shooting, which became a subject for her work.
Her writing has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Tin House and O, The Oprah Magazine.
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