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 Beverly Monestier is an international writer who has been awarded in both poetry and prose. Her collection of poetry entitled What The House Is Made Of received the 2009 Edwin M. Eakin Memorial Book Publication Award. Her previous collection, Modern Ruins, was published in Cyprus in 2002. Her recent work can be found in Callaloo, Mizna, Southern Humanities Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Dogwood, Palo Alto Review, Cadences (European University of Cyprus), Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, New Texas, Rio Grande Review, the national awards anthology Encore, multiple editions of the San Antonio Express-News, and across many other pages and stages.
Beverly holds an honors degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and has lived and/or worked in the European capital of Brussels, in Russia soon after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and for many years in the far Eastern Mediterranean. She has served as a state touring poet for the Texas Commission on the Arts, a state poetry coach and advisor for the national Poetry Out Loud program, and done work for the Poets & Writers organization, the Healing Arts program, USAID and the Cyprus Fulbright Commission, and numerous educational institutions and community organizations. She has twice been featured by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies annual conference (2006, 2008) as both a creativity instructor and a performing poet, and was one of two poets selected to represent the US at 2007 International Poetry Day events in Nicosia. There are plans to publish her professional creativity course and related materials as a book for the general public.
In 2007, popular San Antonio Woman magazine named her their Role Model for Youth, both for having been a young entrepreneur (she has an international organizational consulting/training company) and for her poetic contribution.
For more information on Performances, Workshops and Classes, Coaching and other Training, contact beverlymonestier@hotmail.com.
For more, visit Beverly Monestier.
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