Tonya M. Foster

Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court, the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; the forthcoming Thingifications::Mathematics of Chaos (Ugly Duckling Presse); and a co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing through Visual Art; and a co-editor of the forthcoming two-volume compendium Umbra Galaxy, Umbra Reader (Wesleyan University Press). A recipient of the 2023 C.D. Wright Award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Tonya is a Creative Capital Awardee and a Radcliffe Fellow. She serves as the George & Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University and is a New Orleanian raised by New Orleanians from way back.