Sandra Claire Foushée (1937-2019) was born in Danville, Illinois to Nelson Smith and Helen Baird Smith. She graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and received a master’s degree in English from the St. Louis University. Her poems have been published in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Rosebud, West Wind Review, The Seattle Review, The Eleventh Muse, The Southern Poetry Review and Runes.
Foushee received a Walden Fellowship from the Northwest Writing Institute, a MacDowell Fellowship, and was an associate of the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute. In 2010, she won the William Stafford Poetry Award from Rosebud, and a Merit Award in poetry from Atlanta Review.
An avid teacher, she shared her passion for creative writing, literature and Native American literature at Tillamook Bay Community College, as well as Clatsop Community College on the Oregon Coast. She conducted writing workshops for over 30 years, and inspired numerous writers and poets.
