Writing Now Reading Series
CRITICAL STUDIES: Reading and reception.
Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court, and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. She has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, the Macdowell Colony, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she is a PhD candidate. She has taught at Bard College, Queens College CUNY, Baruch College CUNY and Naropa University.
Her work has appeared in Callaloo, MiPoesias, Western Humanities Review, the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog, The Hat and elsewhere. In a review, Patricia Spears Jones says, “Foster's imaginative work glories in language's ambiguities, discords, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” A New Orleans native, Tonya Foster is a resident of Harlem and San Francisco where she is an assistant professor of Writing & Literature and Graduate Writing at California College of the Arts.