Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, a hub of railroading and other industrial activity before it fell into decline over the last fifty years. The first in the family to graduate from college, she attended Smith College and Stanford Law School on full scholarships. Three kids and many years of Special Ed advocacy later, she enrolled in Warren Wilson’s MFA program, graduating in January 2010. Foust’s book,
All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song, won the Many Mountains Moving Book Award in 2009 (publication forthcoming in 2010), and
God, Seed, a book of environmental poetry with art by Lorna Stevens will be released by Tebot Bach Press in the fall of 2010.
Mom’s Canoe (Texas Review Press, 2009) and
Dark Card (Texas Review Press, 2008) won the Robert Phillips Poetry Prize in consecutive years. Foust's recent poetry is published or forthcoming in
Atlanta Review,
Margie,
North American Review,
The Hudson Review,
The Seattle Review,
Spoon River Poetry Review,
Woman’s Review of Books, and other journals.
Posted on January 23, 2010 2:54 PM
