Rebecca Foust’s fourth book, ONLY (Four Way Books 2022) earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her poems, in journals including Narrative, POETRY, Ploughshares, and Southern Review, won this year’s New Ohio Review prize and were runner-up for the Missouri Review Editors Prize. Past recognitions include the James Hearst, Pablo Neruda and Poetry International prizes, fellowships at Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee Writer’s Conference, and a Marin County Poet Laureateship where Rebecca’s program, “Poetry as Sanctuary,” featured readings by local immigrant poets. She in enjoying getting to know the Boundary Waters near Ely, where she lives with her partner Bill Harvey for part of the year; otherwise she is in Northern CA. rebeccafoust.com

Rebecca is a  2023 North Shore Readers and Writers Festival Author.