Jennifer Foerster

Last updated

Jennifer Foerster
BornJennifer Elise Foerster
GenrePoetry
Notable worksLeaving Tulsa (2013)
Website
jenniferfoerster.com

Jennifer Elise Foerster is a poet, writer, and teacher. She has published three poetry books and served as Associate Editor for When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through, A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020), and has been published in numerous journal publications and anthologies. Her 2013 book Leaving Tulsa was a finalist for the shortlist of the 2014 PEN/Open Book Award. [1]

Contents

Early life and family

Foerster's father was in the U.S. Air Force, so she grew up living in many cities in the U.S. and Europe. [2] While she is now based in San Francisco, California, Foerster belongs to the Muscogee Nation, a Native American Nation located in Oklahoma. [3] [4] In addition to her Mvskoke relatives, she is of German and Dutch heritage. [4]

Education

Foerster earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and PhD in Literary Arts from the University of Denver. [1] [3] [4] She also has received fellowships, [5] including the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship (2017), [1] [3] a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship (2014), a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at Breadloaf (2017), and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford (2008–2010). [6]

Works

Her poetry works are: [3] [5]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carolyn Forché</span> American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate

Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate. She has received many awards for her literary work.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Linda Hogan (writer)</span> American poet

Linda K. Hogan is an American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. She is currently the Chickasaw Nation's writer in residence. Hogan is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.

Mộng-Lan is a Vietnamese-born American writer, visual artist, musician, dancer, and educator. Former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Fulbright Scholar, she has published seven books of poetry & artwork, three chapbooks, has won numerous prizes such as the Juniper Prize and the Pushcart Prize. Poems have been included in international and national anthologies such as Best American Poetry Anthology and several Norton anthologies. Her books include: Song of the Cicadas ; Why is the Edge Always Windy?; Tango, Tangoing: poems & art; One Thousand Minds Brimming, 2016; and Dusk Aflame: poems & art, 2018. Her latest music album releases include Arrabal de Tango: Tango por Siempre, voice & guitar, 2020; Perfumas de Amor, de Argentina y Viet Nam, , 2018; New Orleans of My Heart, jazz piano, 2019; Dreaming Orchid: Poetry & Jazz Piano, 2016. www.monglan.com

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janice Gould</span> American poet

Janice Gould (1949–2019) was a Koyangk'auwi Maidu writer and scholar. She was the author of Beneath My Heart, Earthquake Weather and co-editor with Dean Rader of Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry. Her book Doubters and Dreamers (2011) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the Binghamton University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award.

Jean Valentine was an American poet and the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joy Harjo</span> American Poet Laureate

Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms. Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American poet and editor. Her debut book, Dog Road Woman, won the American Book Award and was the first finalist of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Diane DeCora Award. Since then, she has written five more books and edited eight anthologies. She is known for addressing issues of culture, prejudice, rights, the environment, peace, violence, abuse, and labor in her poetry and other creative works.

Elise Paschen is an American poet and member of the Osage Nation. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Poetry in Motion, a program which places poetry posters in subways and buses across the country.

Leslie Ullman is an American poet and professor. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently, Progress on the Subject of Immensity. Her third book, Slow Work Through Sand, was co-winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize. Other honors include winning the 1978 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for her first book, Natural Histories, and two NEA fellowships. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Poetry,The Kenyon Review, Puerto Del Sol, Blue Mesa Review, and in anthologies including Five Missouri Poets.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz</span> American nonfiction writer and poet (born 1978)

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is an American nonfiction writer and poet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Collier (poet)</span> American writer and academic

Michael Robert Collier is an American poet, teacher, creative writing program administrator and editor. He has published five books of original poetry, a translation of Euripides' Medea, a book of prose pieces about poetry, and has edited three anthologies of poetry. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Poet Laureate of Maryland. As of 2011, he is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a professor of creative writing at the University of Maryland, College Park and the poetry editorial consultant for Houghton Mifflin.

Elizabeth Woody is an American Navajo/Warm Springs/Wasco/Yakama artist, author, and educator. In March 2016, she was the first Native American to be named poet laureate of Oregon by Governor Kate Brown.

Rachel Zucker is an American poet born in New York City in 1971. She is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, SoundMachine. She also co-edited the book Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections with fellow poet, Arielle Greenberg.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alison Hawthorne Deming</span> American poet, essayist and teacher (born 1946)

Alison Hawthorne Deming is an American poet, essayist and teacher, former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and currently Regents Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eleni Sikelianos</span> American poet (born 1965)

Eleni Sikelianos is an American experimental poet with a particular interest in scientific idiom. She is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.

Colleen J. McElroy was an American poet, short story writer, editor, memoirist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carmen Giménez</span> American writer and editor

Carmen Giménez, also known as Carmen Giménez Smith, is an American poet, writer, and editor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Heid E. Erdrich</span> Native American poet and author from Minnesota

Heid E. Erdrich is a poet, editor, and writer. Erdrich is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emmy Pérez</span> American poet & writer

Emmy Pérez is a Chicanx poet and writer originally from Santa Ana, California, United States. She was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2017. She has lived in the borderlands of Texas since 2000, where she has taught creative writing in college and MFA programs, as well as in detention facilities and as part of social justice projects. Her latest collective is Poets Against the Border Wall. She was also a fellow (2010–12) and organizing committee member of CantoMundo (2018–19) and is a long-time member of Macondo Writers Workshop.

Shara Lessley is an American poet and essayist.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "NEA Literature Fellowships: Jennifer Elise Foerster". National Endowment for the Arts . May 30, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
  2. DeLaune, Darren (February 16, 2017). "Citizen shares her story". Mvskoke Media. Retrieved November 3, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Erdrich, Heid E. (September 10, 2018). New poets of Native nations. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press. ISBN   978-1-55597-809-9 . Retrieved November 3, 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 "Jennifer Elise Foerster". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. October 9, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. 1 2 Foerster, Jennifer (March 17, 2015). "Poet Jennifer Foerster". Poets.org. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  6. "About Jennifer". jenniferfoerster.com. Retrieved October 25, 2018.