Rebecca Foust

Poet

CA
California US
Email: 
foustrebecca@gmail.com
Website: 
www.rebeccafoust.com
Twitter/X: 
@FoustRebecca
RSS feed: 
rebeccafoust.com/

Author's Bio

Rebecca Foust’s new book, ONLY released from Four Way Books in 2022 and received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly Foust is the author of three chapbooks including The Unexploded Ordnance Bin (2018 Swan Scythe Chapbook Award) and four books including Paradise Drive, (Press 53 Award for Poetry). Recognitions include the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar, the CP Cavafy and James Hearst poetry prizes, a 2017-19 Marin Poet Laureateship, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee. Recent poems are in The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, Narrative, Ploughshares, POETRY, and elsewhere. Contact her on her website, @FoustRebecca on Facebook, or @rebecca.foust.52 on Instagram. 

Education: 
Warren Wilson College MFA
Writers Retreats: 
MacDowell
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Alongside We Travel: Contemporary Poets on Autism (NYQ Books, 2019)
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Healing the Divide: Poems of Kinship and Connection (Green Writers Press, 2019)
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Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2018)
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How Lovely the Ruins (Spiegel & Grau, 2017)
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Red Sky: poetry on the global epidemic of violence against women (Sable Books, 2017)
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Literature, A Pocket Anthology (Penguin, 2014)
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Bullies and Bystanders (Tiger Bark Press, 2014)
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From the Fishouse (Fishouse.org, 2014)
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Irresistible Sonnets (Headmistress Press, 2014)
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Chautauqua Jr. (University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
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The Art of Survival (King's Estate Press, 2013)
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Woman Write Resistance (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2012)
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At the Gate: Departures and Arrivals (Kings Estate Press, 2011)
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Fire on Her Tongue (Two Sylvias Press, 2011)
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Literature, A Pocket Anthology (Penguin, 2011)
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Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2011)
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Hope Poetry (First Book Blair County, 2010)
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Natural Language (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 2010)
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When the Muse Calls, Poems of the Creative Life (Pomegranate Books, 2010)
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Twelve Ways: An Anthology of the 2007 IWL (Kearnystreet Press, 2007)
Books:
ONLY (Four Way Books, 2022)
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Paradise Drive (Press 53, 2015)
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All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song (Many Mountains Moving, 2010)
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God, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (Tebot Bach, 2010)
Chapbooks:
The Unexploded Ordnance Bin (Swan Scythe Press, 2019)
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Mom's Canoe (Texas Review Press, 2009)
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Dark Card (Texas Review Press, 2008)
Journals:
32 Poems
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Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
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Alaska Quarterly Review
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American Book Review
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Arts & Letters
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Birmingham Poetry Review
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Blackbird
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BOMB Magazine
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Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
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Catamaran Literary Reader
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Chautauqua
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Cider Press Review
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Cimarron Review
,
Cincinnati Review
,
Cortland Review
,
Ecotone
,
Five Points
,
Journal of the American Medical Association
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Lascaux Review
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Los Angeles Review
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MacGuffin
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Margie
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Massachusetts Review
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Measure
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Mid-American Review
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Narrative Magazine
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New Ohio Review
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Nimrod
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North American Review
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Notre Dame Review
,
OmniVerse
,
Oxford Poetry
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Pleiades
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ploughshares
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Plume
,
Poet Lore
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Poetry Daily
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Poetry International
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Poetry Magazine
,
Poetry Northwest
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Prairie Schooner
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Quarterly West
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Raintown Review
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Redactions
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The Rumpus
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Salamander
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The Sewanee Review
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Smartish Pace
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South Carolina Review
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TSR: The Southampton Review
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Southern Indiana Review
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Southern Review
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Southwest Review
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Spillway
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Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
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Texas Review
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The Hopkins Review
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The Hudson Review
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The Humanist
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The Seattle Review
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Tikkun
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Verse Daily
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West Marin Review
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Women's Review of Books
,
ZYZZYVA
Prizes won: 

2022: “At Motel 6 the Night Deedee Died” featured in Verse Daily.  “Second Gratitude” chosen as Poem of the Week and #1 on “Most Read” list for Narrative Magazine The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, Runner up for the Poetry By the Sea book prize.The Unexploded Ordnance Bin, finalist for the Julie Suk book prize.Poetry By the Sea Book Award, Second Place.   

2020: Pablo Neruda Award (Nimrod Journal) for "Blackout" and "Sit with Me," chosen by Kaveh Akbar

2019: Hedgebrook Fellowship, Lascaux Review Flash Fiction prize.

2017-19 Marin County Poet Laureate

2018: CP Cavafy Prize (Poetry International), 2018 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Award

2015: Press 53 Award for Poetry, James Hearst Poetry Prize (Jane Hirshfield judged), American Literary Review Fiction prize(Garth Greenwell judged), Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writer’s Conference, MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2014: Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place, Constance Rook CNF Prize (Malahat Review).

2013: Inductee, Blair County Arts Foundation for Literary Arts.

2010: God, Seed, Foreword Book of the Year Award and Mass Book Award finalist. All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, Many Mountains Moving Prize, Finalist for the Paterson Prize, and nominated for the Poet’s Prize.

2009: Dark Card, Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.

2008: Mom’s Canoe, Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
There There by Tommy Orange, Poetry Will Save Your Life by Jill Bialosky, Terrible Blooms by Melissa Stein, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry by Dean Rader, American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrence Hayes, Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora, Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes, Goldenrod by Maggie Finch, Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo, Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith, Olio by Tyehimba Jess, American Sonnets for my Future Assassin by Terence Hayes, Niagra by Peter Campion, Sonnets to Frank by Diane Suess

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Altoona
Raised in: 
Altoona, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Aug 30, 2022