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The novel "Don't Kill the Birthday Girl" by Sandra Beasley is a coming of age story told through the authors point of view on how she has dealt and lived an allergic life. Beasley, an award-winning poet, is allergic to a full menu of foods: “dairy (including goat’s milk), egg, soy, beef, shrimp, pine nuts, cucumbers, cantaloupe, honeydew, mango, macadamias, pistachios, cashews, swordfish, and mustard.” Sandra needed an adult-sized purse to schlep her medicines, including her asthma inhaler, her antihistamine and her EpiPen, a device that allowed her to self-inject a life-saving shot of epinephrine. “Picture a kid in thick-lensed glasses and a be glittered T-shirt,” she writes. “Now add the purse of a thirty-two-year-old mother, complete with pills, tissues, safety pins, and too many pennies.”

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Sandra Beasley, the author of "Don't Kill the Birthday Girl",  was born on May 5, 1980 in Vienna, Virginia.  She is a very successful American poet and non-fiction writer. Beasley graduated from Thomas Jefferson High school for Science and Technology. As of today, Sandra Beasley is continuing writing poetry and non-fiction.

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Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox (W.W. Norton, 2010), Theories of Falling (New Issues, 2008), and Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, 2011).

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Sandra Beasley "Don't Kill the Birthday Girl" part 2 of 4.mov

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Award-winning poet Sandra Beasley reads from her book Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, on July 26, 2011. Published by Crown in 2011 and blending history, science, and personal experience, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl is both a memoir and a cultural survey of food allergy in America.

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"Soy does a wicked birch impression so convincing to the body that ingesting soy milk has triggered anaphylactic reactions in people sensitive to the tree pollen"

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Don't Kill the Birthday Girl by Sandra Beasley - Book Trailer

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Don't Kill the Birthday Girl - New Memoir from Sandra Beasley - Available as a hardcover and eBook - July 2011 Sandra Beasley has had severe allergies to certain foods her entire life.

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"54 percent of a pool of teenagers with severe allergies indicated purposefully ingesting a food known to contain at least a tiny amount of an allergen. Nearly half of those kids cited the rationale It looked good and I wanted to eat it."

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"But the side effects of an EpiPen's worth of epinephrine are usually no worse than tremor, nausea, and a mild headache. The side effect of anaphylaxis is death."