Jennifer Elise Foerster is of German, Dutch, and Muscogee descent, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. In 2013, University of Arizona Press published her debut collection of poetry, Leaving Tulsa. Her poems have been anthologized in Sing (University of Arizona Press, 2013), New California Writing 2011 (Heyday Press, 2011), and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, Foerster grew up living internationally and now lives in San Francisco.