Angela Foster to speak at First Lady Event

Angela Foster is a poet and memoirist who teaches creative writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. 

Angela received a Loft Literary Center Excellence in Teaching Award and a writing residency at the Madeline Island School of the Arts in July 2017. The New York Mills Cultural Center granted her a writing residency in November 2017 and she also received a Minnesota State Arts Grant in 2017. Other awards and recognition include a hand-carved chair and the title “Bard” from the Cambria Eisteddfod competition in New Ulm, MN, a performance by the Petaluma Readers Theatre in California of her memoir piece, Brat, and the selection of a haiku written by Angela for “Poetry on the Sidewalk” at the Pine City library.

Angela’s work has been published in Minnesota Literature, Talking Stick, Dust and Fire, Otter Tail Review, Tiny Lights, Poetry Midwest and Lake County Journal. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have received awards from Brainerd Writer’s Alliance, National League of American Pen Women, Cup of Comfort, New Orleans Study Abroad Competition, Lucidity, The League of Minnesota Poets, National Federation of State Poetry Societies and others. Angela served as co-editor of County Lines: 87 Minnesota Counties, 130 Minnesota Poets, published by Loon Feather Press (2008) and holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Nonfiction from Pine Manor College in Boston, MA.  She co-authored FARM GIRLS with her sister, Candace Simar, released by RiverPlace Press in 2013. 

The First Lady Event, with its 2018 theme as “Farm Girls,” will be held at the Fireside Grill & Patio in Bagley on March 10 at 10:00 am. Advance Sale Tickets for the event are available at area Banks, Thrifty White Drug or by calling the history Center at 785-2000. Tickets must be purchased by March 7; no tickets will be available at the door