Jeanette Beebe is a Princeton, N.J.-based poet and freelance journalist. Born and raised in Iowa, she currently reports for WHYY-FM, the NPR member station in Philadelphia, and other outlets.

Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Nat Brut, Rogue Agent, Side B, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal.

She holds an A.B. in English with certificates in Creative Writing and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University. At Princeton, she wrote a book-length senior poetry thesis, co-edited Prism Magazine, and was awarded the Morris W. Croll Poetry Prize, the Emily Ebert Junior Prize, and the A. Scott Berg Fellowship.

Her poem “Adopted” won first prize in the Iowa Poetry Association’s Lyrical Iowa competition.

Say hello: @JeanetteBeebe and go to www.jeanettebeebe.com.