Tonya Foster

Tonya Monique Foster, usually credited as Tonya M. Foster, is an American poet, essayist, and educator from New Orleans. A 2020–2021 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow and recipient of a 2020 Creative Capital Award, she holds the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

Previously she taught at California College of the Arts.