Jeanne Marie Beaumont holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and is the author of four books of poetry. Her first, Placebo Effects, was selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series and published by W.W. Norton in 1997.

This was followed by Curious Conduct, published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2004, and Burning of the Three Fires, published by BOA in 2010. Her fourth book, Letters from Limbo, was published in fall of 2016 by CavanKerry Press. With Claudia Carlson, she co-edited the anthology The Poets' Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line Press, 2003). 

Her poems have been included in more than three dozen anthologies and textbooks, among them Good Poems for Hard Times, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 20th ed., The Norton Introduction to Literature, When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women, and The Practicing Poet. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Harvard Review, Harper's, Manhattan Review, The Nation, Ploughshares,  World Literature Today, and many other journals. She won the 2009 Dana Award for Poetry, and also The Greensboro Review literary award for poetry in 2003. From 1992 to 2000, she was co-editor of the literary magazine American Letters & Commentary.