Tonya Foster
Tonya Foster | |
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 Tonya Forster in 2019 | |
| Born | January 20, 1966 Bloomington, Indiana U.S. |
| Occupations | Poet, essayist and scholar |
| Employer | San Francisco State University |
Tonya Monique Foster (born January 20, 1966), is an American poet, essayist, and professor at San Francisco State University.
Biography
[edit]Foster was born in Bloomington, Illinois but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] She earned a BA from Tulane University. She then went on to obtain an MFA from the University of Houston.[2] She earned her PhD from CUNY Graduate Center.[1]
Career
[edit]She has taught at Bard College, Queens College CUNY, Baruch College CUNY, and California College of the Arts.[2] She is the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair, Associate Professor at San Francisco State University,[3]
Awards
[edit]- 2023 C.D. Wright Award for Poetry[1]
- 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.[2]
- 2020–2021 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow
- Recipient of a 2020 Creative Capital Award.[4][5]
Bibliography
[edit]- A Swarm of Bees in High Court ISBN 9780988539914 OCLC 835951451
- La Grammaire des Os ISBN 9782848092829
- Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (co-editor) ISBN 9780915924943 OCLC 48850972
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Tonya M. Foster | FCA Grant Recipient". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- 1 2 3 "Poetry Reading: Tonya Foster, Layli Long Soldier, & Safiya Sinclair". Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 2017-02-03. Retrieved 2026-02-01.
- ↑ "SF State web page".
- ↑ "Radcliffe Institute Announces 2020–2021 Fellowship Class". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University. May 22, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Monkey Talk Multimedia Performance, Poetry". 2020 Creative Capital Awards. April 10, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
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