About Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust is an American poet. Her seventh book of poetry, ONLY, won Second Place for the 2022 Royal Dragonfly Award, a Silver Medal in the Poetry Category in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards, and was a Longlist Finalist for the 2022 Julie Suk Book Prize. ONLY was also featured in a dance film that was screened in the 2024 Cadence Video Poetry Festival and in Issue 165 of TriQuarterly. The Unexploded Ordnance Bin won the Swan Scythe Poetry Chapbook Award. A book of sonnets, Paradise Drive, won the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry; All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (Many Mountains Moving, 2010), winner of the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize; and God, Seed: Poetry & Art about the Natural World (Tebot Bach, 2010), a collaboration with artist Lorna Stevens that won the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Her chapbooks are The Unexploded Ordnance Bin (Swan Scythe Press, 2020) winner of the Swan Scythe Chapbook Award, and Mom’s Canoe (Texas Review Press 2009) and Dark Card (Texas Review Press 2008), winners of the Robert Phillips Poetry Prize in consecutive years. Foust’s poems appear widely, in The Hudson Review, Narrative, Ploughshares, POETRY, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Recognitions include the 2020 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar, the C.P. Cavafy and James Hearst Poetry Prizes, a 2017-19 Marin County Poet Laureateship, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference.Browse all poems and texts published on Rebecca Foust
