Tonya Monique Foster (born January 20, 1966), is an American poet, essayist, and professor at San Francisco State University.
Biography Foster was born in Bloomington, Illinois but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She earned a BA from Tulane University. She then went on to obtain an MFA from the University of Houston. She earned her PhD from CUNY Graduate Center.
Career She has taught at Bard College, Queens College CUNY, Baruch College CUNY, and California College of the Arts. She is the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair, Associate Professor at San Francisco State University,
Awards
2023 C.D. Wright Award for Poetry Foster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, the Macdowell Colony, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she was a PhD candidate. 2020–2021 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow Recipient of a 2020 Creative Capital Award.
Bibliography
A Swarm of Bees in High Court OCLC 835951451 La Grammaire des Os Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (co-editor) OCLC 48850972
References
External links Poetry Foundation PennSound audio