Tonya M. Foster

Tonya M. Foster is a Black poet and the author of La Grammaire des Os (joca seria, 2016) and A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*, 2015). The recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, she is the George and Judy Marcus Chair in Poetry at San Francisco State University. She lives in West Oakland, on the unceded land of the Ohlone in the Confederated Villages of Lisjan.