Alabama Authors Directory

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Foster Dickson

Hometown: Montgomery, Alabama Lives in: ,

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  • Email: foster.dickson@gmail.com

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About Foster Dickson

Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, a city long billed as “the Cradle of the Confederacy and the Birthplace of Civil Rights.” Living in the Heart of Dixie, Dickson writes from the perspective of a person whose life cannot be separated from the history of the Deep South. He began his career at independent publisher NewSouth Books, where he worked in both the business and creative sides of company’s operation. In addition to his writing work, Dickson taught …Read More creative writing at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School for nineteen years and currently works as the Academic Writing Advisor at Huntingdon College.

Works: Faith. Virtue. Wisdom.: A History of Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School, 1873 – 2023 (commissioned, 2023)
Closed Ranks: The Whitehurst Case in Post-Civil Rights Montgomery (NewSouth Books, 2018)
Children of the Changing South: Accounts of Growing …Read More Up During and After Integration (McFarland & Co., 2011)
The Life and Poetry of John Beecher, 1904 – 1980: Advocate of Poetry As A Spoken Art (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009)
Treasuring Alabama’s Black Belt: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Place (Auburn University at Montgomery/Alabama Humanities Foundation, 2009)
I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009) 
Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002)

Awards: 2020: Literary Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts
2015: Community Legacy Project grant from the Boston Arts Academy
2011: Writer-in-Service Residency from the Lillian E. Smith Foundation
2009 – 2010: National Artist Teacher …Read More Fellowship from the Surdna Foundation 
2009 – 2010: Secondary Teacher of the Year for the Alabama (state) PTA

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