Jennifer Elise Foerster is a poet, writer, and teacher.
She has published three poetry books and served as Associate Editor for When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through, A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020), and has been published in numerous journal publications and anthologies.
[1] Foerster's father was in the U.S. Air Force, so she grew up living in many cities in the U.S. and Europe.
[3][4] In addition to her Mvskoke relatives, she is of German and Dutch heritage.
[1][3][4] She also has received fellowships,[5] including the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship (2017),[1][3] a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship (2014), a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at Breadloaf (2017), and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford (2008–2010).