M. K. FosterM. K. Foster is a poet, fiction writer, and historian of science from Alabama. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Nimrod, Indiana Review, Poet Lore, The Gettysburg Review,Molotov Cocktail, Best New Poets, and elsewhere in the United States, and in Skylight 47, Crannóg, and The Apiary in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where she was nominated for a 2026 Forward Prize. She has presented her archival research on Renaissance monstrosity, sharks, and apocalypses at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Newberry Library, the National Museum of Denmark, and elsewhere. In 2024, she was named a MacDowell Fellow in Literature and selected for the 2025 Fulbright US Scholar Award in Creative Writing at Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland. In Fall 2025, she returned abroad as a Maison Dora Maar Fellow in Ménerbes, France. Foster's current projects include a poetry collection about deep geologic time and the divine feminine, a manuscript of fairytales, a southern gothic monster saga, and an apocryphal novel retelling of the Flood epic. She holds an MFA and a PhD but holds especially dear her work as a bookseller and storyteller at Little Professor Bookshop in Birmingham, Alabama. For monsters, fairytales, glowing horses, and more, please visit: marykatherinefoster.com Read More Read Less