Discipline: Literature – poetry

Ellen Foos

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Princeton, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006

Ellen Foos is a senior production editor for Princeton University Press and the publisher of Ragged Sky Press, which she founded in 1992. She has received fellowships to MacDowell and the Vermont Studio Center. She coedited Dark as a Hazel Eye: Coffee & Chocolate Poems and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems. Her own poems are gathered in Little Knitted Sister and more recently The Remaining Ingredients. They have also appeared in This Broken Shore, Mead, The Curator, Edison Literary Review, and Contemporary American Voices.

Studios

Heyward

Ellen Foos worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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