Professor Patricia Foster

PATRICIA FOSTER is the author of All the Lost Girls (PEN/Jerard Award for memoir), Just beneath My Skin, and the editor of four anthologies, most recently Understanding the Essay (co-edited with Jeff Porter). She is the recipient of a Dean's Scholar Award, a Yaddo Fellowship, a Florida Arts Council Award, an Iowa Arts & Humanities Award, and has published over fifty essays and stories in Ploughshares, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review and other quarterlies. She received an MFA from the Iowa...See more

PATRICIA FOSTER is the author of All the Lost Girls (PEN/Jerard Award for memoir), Just beneath My Skin, and the editor of four anthologies, most recently Understanding the Essay (co-edited with Jeff Porter). She is the recipient of a Dean's Scholar Award, a Yaddo Fellowship, a Florida Arts Council Award, an Iowa Arts & Humanities Award, and has published over fifty essays and stories in Ploughshares, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review and other quarterlies. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from Florida State University. She is a professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa and has taught in France, Australia, Italy, Czech Republic, and Spain. See less