{"id":8970,"date":"2018-10-22T10:18:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8970"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:18:53","slug":"foster-patricia-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8970","title":{"rendered":"FOSTER, PATRICIA, 1948-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; university professor.\u00a0 Born&#8211; May 2, 1948, Fairhope.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;John Edward and Adeline LeClaire Donaldson Foster.\u00a0 Married&#8211;David Wilder, 1990.\u00a0 Education&#8211;B.A., 1968, Vanderbilt University; M.F.A. (Visual Art), UCLA, 1980; M.F.A. (Creative Writing), Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop, 1986; Ph.D., Florida State, 1993. Taught at Goddard College (Vermont), 1993-94; at the University of Iowa, 1994-2009. Published fiction and essays in many journals; lectured and led workshops at universities nationally and internationally.\u00a0 Member Modern Language Association; Associated Writing Programs.\u00a0 Received numerous awards for her writing and scholarship, including the Lake Effect Fiction Award in 1990; the Florida Arts Council Award; Dean&#8217;s Scholar Award at the University of Iowa in 2003; the Carl Klaus Teaching Award at Iowa, 2013, and others.\u00a0 Awarded emeritus status on her retirement at Iowa in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Iowa website; Encyclopedia of Alabama<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All the Lost Girls:\u00a0 Confessions of a Southern Daughter.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Girl from Soldier Creek.\u00a0 River City Publishing, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Just beneath My Skin.\u00a0 University of Georgia Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minding the Body:\u00a0 Women Writers on Body and Soul.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Anchor\/Doubleday, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Sister to Sister.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Anchor\/Doubleday, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Healing Circle: Narratives of Recovery.\u00a0 Dutton, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding the Essay.\u00a0 Broadview Books, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer; university professor.\u00a0 Born&#8211; May 2, 1948, Fairhope.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;John Edward and Adeline LeClaire Donaldson Foster.\u00a0 Married&#8211;David Wilder, 1990.\u00a0 Education&#8211;B.A., 1968, Vanderbilt University; M.F.A. (Visual Art), UCLA, 1980; M.F.A. (Creative Writing), Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop, 1986; Ph.D., Florida State, 1993. Taught at Goddard College (Vermont), 1993-94; at the University of Iowa, 1994-2009. Published fiction and essays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}