Rebecca Foust is the author of three full length and two chapbooks of poetry, most recently a sonnet collection, Paradise Drive, that won the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry and was reviewed in the Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Review of Books, and elsewhere. Foust’s poems, essays, and short stories appear widely, most recently in the American Academy of Poets Poem-a-Day series, the Hudson Review, Oxford American, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She earned her M.F..A in poetry from Warren Wilson in 2010, following careers in criminal defense and autism advocacy. A recipient of recent fellowships from The Frost Place, MacDowell, the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, and the West Chester Poetry Conference, she works as poetry editor for Women’s Voices for Change and as an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine.
Rebecca Foust
Studios
Phi Beta
Rebecca Foust worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…