Tonya M. Foster

Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court and the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os; and co-editor of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research focus on ideas of place and emplacement, and on intersections between the visual and the written. She is an editor at Fence Magazine, and at The African-American Review. Her poetry, prose, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Tripwire, boundary2, MiPOESIAS, NYFA Arts Quarterly, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and elsewhere. Tonya is a recipient of awards and fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Ford and the Mellon Foundations, from New York Foundation for the Arts; and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and at the Macdowell Artist colony. Her next collections are a cross-genre collection on New Orleans—A Mathematics of Chaos::Thingification (forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse 2021), and Monkey Talk, a cross-genre series about race, paranoia, aesthetics, and surveillance. She is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. Raised in New Orleans, her family goes way back in Louisiana.