Brian Beatty is the author of the poetry collections Dust and Stars: Miniatures (Cholla Needles Press), Brazil, Indiana (Kelsay Books) and Coyotes I Couldn’t See (Red Bird Chapbooks), plus the humor collection DUCK! (Brouhaha Books).
Beatty’s jokes, poems, reviews and short stories have appeared in numerous print and digital publications, including The American Journal of Poetry, The Bark, Cholla Needles, Conduit, Dark Mountain (England), elimae, The Evergreen Review, Forklift Ohio, Glasgow Review of Books (Scotland), Gulf Coast, Hobart, Juxtaprose, McSweeneys, Midwestern Gothic, The Moth (Ireland), Museum of Americana, NOON, Phoebe, Poetry City USA, Publishers Weekly, Quail Bell, The Quarterly, Rain Taxi and Seventeen, among others.