Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the author of Curious Conduct (Boa Editions, 2004), Placebo Effects (Norton, 1997) and the forthcoming collection Burning of the Three Fires (Boa, 2010). She teaches at the 92nd St. Y, in the Stonecoast M.F.A. Program, and directs the annual Advanced Seminar at the Frost Place. She lives in Manhattan.