Background
Edward Halsey Foster was born on December 17, 1942, Williamsburg, Massachusetts, United States to Edward Clark Foster, a teacher and geologist, and Edith (Derosia) Foster, a school principal and teacher.
Edward graduated from Columbia University with B.A. in 1965, M.A. in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1970.
Edward graduated from Columbia University with B.A. in 1965, M.A. in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1970.
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Edward Halsey Foster was born on December 17, 1942, Williamsburg, Massachusetts, United States to Edward Clark Foster, a teacher and geologist, and Edith (Derosia) Foster, a school principal and teacher.
Edward graduated from Columbia University with B.A. in 1965, M.A. in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1970.
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.
Ed Foster is widely considered to be one of the most important independent publishers of avant-garde poetry today. Author of forty books of poetry, criticism, biography, and literary history (and still counting), Foster is the founder of Talisman House, Publishers, and the journal Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. His latest collection of poetry, Sowing the Wind: A Requiem in the Modern World, has just been published by Marsh Hawk Press.
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Edward is the member of Modern Language Association of America (member of American literature section).
Edward married Elaine Dunphy, a teacher, on June 22, 1968 , but marriage ended. They have two children.
