bio

I was born in Altoona, formerly one of the country’s great railroad towns, located in the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby Hollidaysburg, a tiny town surrounded by farmlands and forests, quarries and strip mines. After attending Smith College and Stanford Law School on scholarships, I practiced law in San Francisco for ten years, then worked as an advocate and grassroots political organizer for parents of kids with autism and other learning disorders.

I continue to do volunteer work for causes related to autism and teach and write in northern California, where I live with my husband and three teenagers. I got my MFA from Warren Wilson College in January 2010, and my recent poetry is published or forthcoming in small print journals including Atlanta Review, Margie, North American Review, The Hudson Review, and Women’s Review of Books. Dark Card and Mom’s Canoe won the 2007 and 2008 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prizes, and a full length book, All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song won the 2008 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Award and was released in April 2010. In 2010 Tebot Bach Press will release God, Seed, a book of environmental poetry with art by Lorna Stevens.

My favorite links for learning more about autism are:

www.taalliance.org/
www.autism-society.org
www.autismspeaks.org/
www.feat.org
www.asperger.org

contact
info@rebeccafoust.com