Resume

• 2012

  Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

  Creative Writing

  University of Maryland College Park

• 2011

  Presented research on Madonna's and Lady Gaga's creative and transformational leadership in changing and revising gender representation in the late 20th/ early 21st centuries\nFull essay available here: http://www.bsc.edu/academics/hess/programs/compass/compass/compass%202011%20edition.pdf

  Foster

  Foster

  The University of Alabama

  MOMENTUM

  Academic Achievement Programs

  Academic Achievement Programs

  University of Maryland

  University of Maryland

  College Park

  Academic Achievement Programs: Summer Transition Program Pre-English lecturer

  preparing students to take ENGL 101 at the University of Maryland during the academic school year

  Academic Writing Lecturer

  Academic Achievement Programs

  College Park

  Maryland

  Teaching English Composition and Creative Writing

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  University of Maryland

  The University of Alabama

  Teaching Assistant

  Academic Writing/ Creative Writing/ Literature Lecturer

  University of Maryland

  Academic Achievement Programs

  University of Maryland

  College Park

  Academic Achievement Programs: Summer Transition Program Pre-English lecturer

  preparing students to take ENGL 101 at the University of Maryland during the academic school year

  Academic Writing Lecturer

  Writing

  Editing

  Social Media Networking

  Database Composing

  Digital Archiving

  and Fundraising.

  Intern

  Birmingham

  Alabama Area

  MOMENTUM

  Poems selected for prize by American poet Sally Keith~\nhttp://www.english.umd.edu/news/5978

  Gulf Coast Poetry Prize

  -Poem selected for prize by American Poet Stanley Plumly\n-Link to poem: https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/26.1/fugue-for-the-sky-burial-of-your-father/

• 2007

  Bachelor of Arts

  English Literature

  Creative Writing

  and Leadership Studies

  -Phi Beta Kappa\n-Mortar Board\n-Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society\n-Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society\n-Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity

  Birmingham-Southern College

  Critical Theory: Romanticism and the Sublime

  Approaches to Teaching College Composition

  Ancient and Contemporary Poetry Translation

  Earthquakes of the Mind: Renaissance Literature Seminar

  21st Century Literature: The Literature of 9/11

  Poetic Forms Seminar

  Literary Research

  Methods

  and Critical Contexts

• M.K. Foster

  M.K. Foster’s poetry won the 2013 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize

  has been recognized with an Academy of American Poets Prize

  and has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast; The Account; H.O.W. Journal; B O D Y; The Baltimore Review; Ninth Letter; Radar Poetry

  and elsewhere. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland

  College Park

  and starting this fall

  she will be a Ph.D. student in English Literature through the Hudson Strode Renaissance Program at the University of Alabama.

  Creative and Academic Work

  Proposal Writing

  Journalism

  Microsoft Office

  Research

  Social Networking

  English

  Feature Writing

  Editing

  Teaching

  Social Media

  PowerPoint

  Creative Writing

  Feature Articles

  Photography

  Fundraising

  Microsoft Word

  Copy Editing

  Public Speaking

  Nonprofits

  Photoshop

  \"Nox Manualis\"

  \"Nox Manualis\"

  -Poetry Publication

  \"Mariner\"

  Poem selected by American poet Stanley Plumly for the 2013 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize~

  \"Fugue for the Sky Burial of Your Father\"

  *forthcoming publication

  \"Second Fish From the Right\"

  Poem published as part of Web Edition #3~

  \"Sandy Island Disappears From the World Atlas As You Speak to Your Father\"

  *forthcoming publication

  \"For the Summer When I Was Tereza

  Holding the Stone\"

  *forthcoming publication

  “Nox Acciderere: Aubade Found Alongside Marian Drew’s Pelican With Turnips”

  Link to PDF: http://howjournal.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/nocturne-for-the-eleventh-hour2.pdf

  \"Nocturne for the Eleventh Hour\"

  Poem published as part of Radar Poetry's inaugural online publication~

  \"The Dream In Which My Body Catches Paul Celan Descending Into the Seine\"

  *hard-copy only*

  \"Aubade for the Flood Hero\"

  \"September Requiem: In Which Sköll Swallows the Sun\"

  *forthcoming publication

  “Patris Famem: In Which My Father is Repin’s Ivan”.

  \"On Learning to Play the Piano With a Hammer\"

  -Presented research involving which uses performance theory and trauma theory as a means of focusing and analyzing poetry of witness: “Trauma and Witness / in a Body / of Writing: A Performance Theory Analysis of Carolyn Forché’s ‘Letter to a City Under Siege'\"\n-Link to conference website: http://disrealitiesconference.blogspot.com/

  Presenter

  Hawaii University International Arts and Humanities Conference

  Presented research which combines creative and academic writing as a means of addressing and exploring personal mythology

  trauma

  and memory\nLink to conference program: http://www.huichawaii.org/assets/2014_ahs_program_book_fp_online.pdf