Darla K. Beasley
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Darla Beasley is the result of the school of life as well as an undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing. Awards for her writing include the WorldWide Writers Prize for Fiction, the El Andar Prize for Literary Excellence, and the Andre Dubus Award for the Novella, as well as multiple collegiate awards from The Academy of American Poets. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, including The Mississippi Review, Earth's Daughters, The Peralta Press, Diagram, and The Stickman Review. Her work is also forthcoming in Quarter After Eight and Leviathan. She is currently teaching at Indiana State University, where she is pursuing a Masters degree in English.
Winning Entry: Surfacing, The Gyroscope
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2003, Finalist