Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, a hub of railroading, coalmining and other industries until the middle of the last century. She attended Smith College and Stanford Law School on scholarships and practiced law in San Francisco for ten years. Three kids and many years of Special Ed advocacy later, she enrolled in Warren Wilson’s MFA program, graduating in 2010. All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song won the Many Mountains Moving Book Award and was released the same year, as was God, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (Tebot Bach), and both are finalists for the 2010 Foreword Book of the Year Award. Mom’s Canoe (Texas Review Press, 2009) and Dark Card (Texas Review Press, 2008) received the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize in consecutive years. Foust's recent poetry is published or forthcoming in The Hudson Review, The Humanist, North American Review, Poetry Daily, The Sewanee Review, and other journals. Reviews of Foust's books are linked on her website.
First posted on January 23, 2010 2:54 PM
- Wild Swan
- Dark Card
- Apologies to my OB-GYN
- Altoona to Anywhere
- Things Burn Down
- Seeds of the Giant Sequoia
- After the Hurricane
- American Dream
- Crickets at Lakemont Park
- Last Bison Gone
- Rebecca Foust Q&A on the genesis of her poem "Wild Swan"
- Rebecca Foust Q&A on how she came to poetry
- Rebecca Foust Q&A with advice to young writers
- Rebecca Foust Q&A on the pleasure of writing
- Rebecca Foust