Jennifer Elise Foerster is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation, and teaches in the IAIA Low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program and at the Rainier Writing Workshop. She is the author of Leaving Tulsa and Bright Raft in the Afterweather, both from the University of Arizona Press. Foerster is of German, Dutch, and Mvskoke descent, is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, and lives in San Francisco.