Rebecca Foust

PO Box 399

Ross, CA 94957

Phone:

(415) 482-9999

E-mail:

foustrebecca@gmail.com

Website:

www.rebeccafoust.com

Author's Bio

Rebecca Foust’s books include "Paradise Drive" (Press 53, 2015), All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song" (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2010), "God, Seed" (Tebot Bach, 2010), and chapbooks "Mom’s Canoe" and "Dark Card" (Texas Review Press, 2009 and 2008). Her poems have appeared in Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, Narrative, North American Review, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere, and her prose is in American Book Review, Chautauqua, Rumpus, Poetry Flash, Tikkun Daily and other journals. Foust has received residency fellowships from The Frost Place and MacDowell. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and works in the Bay Area as a writer, freelance editor, teacher, and Marin Poetry Center Board member.

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won:

2015: Press 53 Award for Poetry 2014: MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place. 2013: Featured poem in five issues of JAMA. 2012: Hudson Review holiday card feature. 2011: Inductee, Blair County Arts Foundation Hall of Fame for Literary Arts. 2010: God, Seed received the Foreword Book of the Year Award and was a finalist for the Mass Book Award. All that Gorgeous Pitiless Song won the Many Mountains Moving Prize, was a Finalist for the Paterson Prize, and was nominated for the Poet’s Prize. 2009: Dark Card won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Santa Clara Review Editor’s Choice Prize. 2008: Mom’s Canoe won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Talismans by Maudell Driskell

Robert Frost by Jay Parini

Madness, Rack & Honey by Mary Ruefle

How to Grow Up by Michelle Tea

The Old American by Ernest Hebert

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Altoona

Raised in:

Altoona, PA

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Last updated: Aug 08, 2019