:: Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have been published in seven anthologies and over fifty magazines and newspapers including Boston Review, DoubleTake, Harper's, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and Witness. She won the Greensboro Review Literary Award for Poetry in 2003. She is the coeditor of The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line, 2003). Her first book of poems was selected for the National Poetry Series by William Matthews. She teaches at Rutgers University and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and she has also served several times as resident faculty for the Frost Place Annual Festival of Poetry. She has lived in New York City since 1983.