Sandra Beasley (born May 5, 1980, in Vienna, Virginia) is an American poet and non-fiction writer.

[3] For several years she worked as an editor at The American Scholar before leaving the position to write full-time.

[4] Beasley is the author of the poetry collections Theories of Falling (New Issues, 2008) and I Was the Jukebox, (W.W. Norton, 2010), as well as the memoir Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, 2011), which is also a cultural history of food allergies.

She was a regular contributor to the "XX Files" column for the Washington Post Magazine[6][7] and more recently her prose has appeared in the Wall Street Journal[8] and Psychology Today.

A selection of her poems appeared in the handmade, collective minimag Four by Two,[9] helmed by klipschutz (pen name of Kurt Lipschutz) and Jeremy Gaulke, published between 2014 and 2017, The complete 12-issue run of the minimag was purchased by UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, for inclusion in its Special Collections.