Rebecca Foust

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

2 Meadow Avenue

Kentfield, CA 94904

Email:

foustrebecca@gmail.com

Phone:

415-847-1272

Bio:

Rebecca Foust’s books include The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, winner of the 2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award and Paradise Drive, winner of the Press 53 Award for Poetry and reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere. Recognitions include the Cavafy and James Hearst Prizes (Poetry), the Lascaux and American Literary Review Prizes (Fiction), the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, and fellowships from Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee. Foust was Marin County Poet Laureate in 2017-19 and works as Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and as an assistant Editor and Team leader for Narrative Magazine.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Twitter:

@FoustRebecca

Born in:

Altoona

Raised in:

Altoona, PA

Pennsylvania

RSS feed:

http://rebeccafoust.com/ [2]

Website:

http://www.rebeccafoust.com [3]

Prizes won:

2019: Hedgebrook Fellowship, Lascaux Review Flash Fiction prize.

2017-19 Marin County Poet Laureate

2018: CP Cavafy Prize (Poetry International), 2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award

2015: Press 53 Award for Poetry, James Hearst Poetry Prize (Jane Hirshfield judged), American Literary Review Fiction prize(Garth Greenwell judged), Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writer’s Conference, MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2014: Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place, Constance Rook CNF Prize (Malahat Review).

2013: Inductee, Blair County Arts Foundation for Literary Arts.

2010: God, Seed, Foreword Book of the Year Award and Mass Book Award finalist. All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, Many Mountains Moving Prize, Finalist for the Paterson Prize, and nominated for the Poet’s Prize.

2009: Dark Card, Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.

2008: Mom’s Canoe, Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.

Education:

Warren Wilson College

What I'm reading now:

There There by Tommy Orange

Poetry Will Save Your Life by Jill Bialosky

Terrible Blooms by Melissa Stein

Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry by Dean Rader

American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrence Hayes

Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora

Writers Retreats:

Broadleaf Writers Conference

MacDowell Colony

Vermont Studio Center

Prefers to work with:

Adults