Robin K. Foster

Robin Foster studied creative writing at Bennington Writing Seminars and has a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of GRIT AND GHOSTS: FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF EIGHT TENACIOUS WOMEN ACROSS A CENTURY (Nebraska Press Bison Books, 2024); Carl Van Doren: A Man of Ideas (National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist for 2019); and The Age of Sail in the Age of Aquarius: The South Street Seaport and the Crisis of the Sixties (2016). Her work has been published in Rooted2: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction, Another Chicago Magazine, Goats Milk Magazine, and the Journal of Urban History.