Jeanette Beebe is a poet and journalist who lives in Akron, Ohio's Highland Square neighborhood. Her reporting has appeared, among others, in Time, Popular Science, Forbes and on the NPR member station WHYY. She has also served as a fact-checker for Scientific American, Insider, and various podcasts. Her poems have been published by Salamander, Sixth Finch, The Journal, The Chattahoochee Review, Juked, and New South, and have been nominated for Best New Poets and a Pushcart Prize.
She was named a finalist for the Iowa Review Award in Poetry, and she formerly served on staff at Nat. Brut magazine. She got into poetry through spoken word, with stage-to-page poems stapled into zines — a journey that led her to the Brave New Voices Poetry Slam as a member of Minneapolis/St. Paul’s team. She holds an A.B. in English with certificates in Creative Writing and Gender & Sexuality Studies from Princeton University. She is also a founding member of the Center for Internet & Media Ethics and is the poetry editor for Gordon Square Review. You can learn more about Jenette on her website, www.jeanettebeebe.com.