Author
Patricia Foster
Patricia Foster is the author of All the Lost Girls (PEN/Jerard Award), Just Beneath My Skin (essays), Girl from Soldier Creek (SFA Fiction Award), and the editor of the anthologies Understanding the Essay (with Jeff Porter) and Minding the Body. Her essay “Eulogy” will be included in the 2020 Pushcart Prize Awards. She is the recipient of the 2017 Clarence Cason Award for nonfiction, the Theodore Hoepfner Award for the essay, and a Dean’s Scholar Award from the University of Iowa. She has been a professor in the MFA program in nonfiction at the University of Iowa for over twenty years and has taught in France, Australia, Czech Republic, Italy, and Spain.
[2020]
CONTRIBUTIONS
Nonfiction
Feb 11 2020
Amends
“There’s someone in the bathroom at night who tries to stop me from getting in,” my father insists a few weeks before his death “I don’t see him, but I… read more
Nonfiction
Dec 01 2006
The Deserter
I never thought I’d end up here, some sucker looking for hope. But then, who really plans on being desperate? Who plans on home invasion or diabetes or falling on your ass after you’ve stepped on a bad patch of ice? All I know is that desperation got me on this plane to Toronto, where I sit quietly in the middle seat in row fifteen, rubbing a piece of lamb fat across my lips.