A recipient of fellowships from NYFA, Macdowell, the Ford and Mellon Foundations, Tonya is also a PhD student in the English department at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Her poems and essays have appeared in magazines such as NY Arts Magazine, NYFA Quarterly,Callaloo, The Hat, and Western Humanities Review. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (2013) and coeditor with Kristin Prevallet of Third Mind: Teaching Creative Writing Through Visual Art (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2002).