More About the Author
Edward Foster is a widely published critic, essayist, editor, and poet. His poetry has been translated into, and published in, many languages, including single-author volumes in Slovenian, Romanian, and Russian.
The poetry editor of "MultiCultural Review," Foster is the founding editor of "Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics," Talisman House, Publishers, and Jensen/Daniels, Publishers. He is a co-editor of "Contemporary Turkish Culture." He is also the president of Greenfield Distribution, Inc., a book distribution company located in New Hampshire.
A Professor of History and Associate Dean for Administration in the College of Arts and Letters at the Stevens Institute of Technology, he is a former visiting professor at Drew University Graduate Faculty and Beykent University (Istanbul) and was a Fulbright lecturer at Haceteppe University in Ankara, Turkey, and at the University of Istanbul.
The co-director of the Russian/American Cultural Exchange Program, he has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards from Columbia University, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the USIA arts program, the New Jersey Historical Commission, Choice, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Fulbright Commision, the Greve Foundation, the Fund for Poetry, the Trubar Foundation, and the Turkish Ministry of Culture.
He has served on the Advisory Committee for the Middle East of the Council for Insternational Exchange of Scholars and is currently a member of the U.S. Student Fulbright National Screening Committee for Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey. He serves on the advisory committees for the Light Millennium, Inc., and the journal "Reconfigurations" and as an associate member of the Institute of Turkish Studies.
For further information, see the "Directory of American Scholars," "Contemporary Authors," "Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series," "The Writers Directory," "The International Writers and Authors Who's Who," and "Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series." See also "Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series," ed. Shelley Andrews, Vol. 26; "Olivier Brossard Interviews Edward Foster," "Double Change" (2003) (online version: www.doublechange.com/issue3); radio interviews archived at "Penn Sound" (www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/XCP); "Twentieth-Century American Poetry" (Facts-on-File); John Olson, "Inner Light," "Jacket Magazine" (2006); "The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry."
