by Phoebe Kate Foster
Phoebe Kate Foster was raised in genteel poverty in the South, the daughter of a Virginia gentleman who worshiped at the graves of ancestors felled during Mr. Lincoln’s War and an Ozarks mountain woman who read palms, foretold the future and saw the spirits of the dead. At various times, Foster has been, or pretended to be, a debutante, a fortune teller, a faith healer, an equestrienne, an educational media producer, a hippie, a gypsy, a spy, a Junior League matron, a Jewish mystic, a wife and a mother. She has always been and will forever be a writer. She’s been published in numerous literary journals (see below) which, after reading this bio of her, will undoubtedly disavow all knowledge of her. She is also an associate editor for PopMatters, an online journal of global culture, a subject about which she knows virtually nothing. She goes by many names and has many identities; you may know her and not even be aware of it. She is, however, very much aware of you.
Publications/Contests/Awards
U.S. Industrial Film Festival, numerous awards for media production and scriptwriting
Writer’s Digest Fiction Competition:
1999, “The Sound of One Hand Clapping,“ 5th place
2000, “Endangered Species,“ 21st place
2001, “Extreme Unction,“ 74th place
Tides of Reason, 1997-2000, columnist
More Published Fiction:
Emrys Journal, “The Sin Eater of Fair Acres“
ProCreation, “Rayjean’s Chair“
Short Stories Bimonthly, “The Sound of One Hand Clapping“
The Distillery: Artistic Spirits of the South, “No Tenth Cat“
Eclectica, “Anomie Crackers in My Soup“
Dead Mule “Beating the Uglies
“Working All the Angles in a Round Room“
“Hard Times in Huckabee“
“Dorrie-Lynn Comer Embarks on the Rest of Her Life“
“Digging for the Bones of Paper Dolls“
“The Sisters at the Tongues of Fire Tabernacle“
Barbaric Yawp, “All Hallow’s Eve“
“Later Than You Think“
Starry Night Review, “In the Land of the Balloon People“
Megaera, “Later Than You Think“ (reprint)
Tattoo Highway, “Offerings for Kali,“ 3rd place, flash fiction competition, Sept. 2002
Electric Acorn (U.K.), “Superstitions“
Slow Trains, “Mazzonelli’s Masterpiece“ (nominated for the 2003 e2ink Best of the Online Journals Anthology)
Flashquake, “Deadhead“
Prairie Schooner, “Naming the Monster“
