Tonya M. Foster (Tonya Monique Foster), is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

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, and scholar from

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. Foster is George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair, Associate Professor at

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. A 2020–2021

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Fellow and recipient of a 2020

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Award. Previously she taught at

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Bibliography

* ''A Swarm of Bees in High Court'' * ''La Grammaire des Os'' * ''Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art'' (co-editor)

References

External links

Poetry Foundation

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