Josephine Foo
ethnic Chinese born in Penang, Malaysia
arrived in New York without papers in the 1980's
B.A., Vassar College
1990 M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Brown University
1997 J.D., University of Pennsylvania
lawyer-advocate in Shiprock on the Navajo Nation
ardent activist for peace and justice
lives in a 1911 apple orchard farmhouse on Orchard Road, Farmington, New Mexico
she and husband Richard Ferguson run Crooked Shelf Books
portions of her first book of prose, poems and a picture story of a three-legged traveling beagle, Endou (Lost Roads, 1996) were included in The Best American Essays 1995
second book is Tomie's Chair (Kaya, 2003)
evening-length concert dance piece set to her poems from the Leah Stein Dance Company, funded by DanceAdvance and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
has published in various journals including The World, The American Voice, Open City, Upstairs At Duroc's (Paris), and the Philadelphia edition of The American Poetry Review
won the Eve of St. Agnes Award in Poetry in 1995 and is a recipient of 2001 NEA and Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Literature Fellowships
two-time Yale Series of Younger Poets finalist
Josey Foo: Poet's Sampler introduced by Arthur Sze at Boston Review
Happy Chinese New Year, Josey Foo
Josey Foo's Endou at Lost Roads
Josey Foo's "Imprint" at Leah Stein Dance Company, in Philadelphia Citypaper
Tomie's Chair at Asian American Writers' Workshop
Tomie's Chair at Asian Reporter
Tomie's Chair at Five Letters for Peace The World is Sending a Message -- Stop the War Against Iraq
high praise for Tomie's Chair at Mammoth Hall Common
Kaya Press described in AsianWeek
