Visiting Writer, Jennifer Foerster will give a Writing Craft Talk at Vermont Studio Center on November 10, 2022 at 10:00 am ET. This event is free and open to the public. Limited seating is available, please email writing@vermontstudiocenter.org to secure your spot and for more information.

Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (forthcoming 2022), 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 is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. Her poetry has recently appeared in POETRY London, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review and other journals. Jennifer currently teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop and is the Literary Assistant to the U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. She Foerster grew up living internationally, is of European (German/Dutch) and Mvskoke descent, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She lives in San Francisco.

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The 2022 Visiting Writers Program is generously supported by The Rona Jaffe Foundation.

Author photo courtesy of Richard Blue Cloud Castaneda.

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