Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, The Maybe Bird, Bright Raft in the Afterweather, and Leaving Tulsa, and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and holds a PhD in Literary Arts from the University of Denver. She teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Rainier Writing Workshop, and works in non-profit administration for various arts and literary organizations. Foerster grew up living internationally, is of European and Mvskoke descent, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She lives in San Francisco.

Website: www.jenniferfoerster.com

Twitter Username: @JenniferEliseF

Publications

• Leaving Tulsa , University of Arizona Press (March 21, 2013)
• Bright Raft in the Afterweather , University of Arizona Press (February 15, 2018)
• The Maybe-Bird , The Song Cave (June 2022)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Institute of American Indian Arts (May 2003)
• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Vermont College of the Fine Arts (July 2007)
• Doctoral Degree in English and Literary Arts from University of Denver (June 2018)

Genres of Interest

Poetry