Biography
Maureen Foley is an artist, writer and teacher who grew up in Carpinteria, California. Foley received a Masters of Fine Art in Prose from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. She also studied drawing, painting, printing and bookmaking techniques at Kenyon College and Naropa University.
Her stories and poems have appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Skanky Possum, Santa Barbara Magazine, Santa Barbara Independent and elsewhere. Her newest novella, Women Float, will be published in Summer 2013 through the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography and in 2002, Dead Metaphor Press published her collection of poems, Epileptic, as winner of the Chapbook Award. Besides working as a freelance writer, Foley has also edited various journals and weekly newspapers. She taught English, creative writing and creativity at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Louisiana State University. She continues to lead workshops in the community.
Foley has exhibited her art in numerous galleries and cafes in Boulder, Colorado, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has also taught hundreds of children art and directed the Carpinteria Valley Art Council's Art by the Sea Summer Camp.
Currently, Foley makes and sells jam at Santa Barbara County farmers markets through her company, Red Hen Cannery. She lives on an avocado ranch in Southern California with her husband, their daughter and their dog.
Her stories and poems have appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Skanky Possum, Santa Barbara Magazine, Santa Barbara Independent and elsewhere. Her newest novella, Women Float, will be published in Summer 2013 through the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography and in 2002, Dead Metaphor Press published her collection of poems, Epileptic, as winner of the Chapbook Award. Besides working as a freelance writer, Foley has also edited various journals and weekly newspapers. She taught English, creative writing and creativity at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Louisiana State University. She continues to lead workshops in the community.
Foley has exhibited her art in numerous galleries and cafes in Boulder, Colorado, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has also taught hundreds of children art and directed the Carpinteria Valley Art Council's Art by the Sea Summer Camp.
Currently, Foley makes and sells jam at Santa Barbara County farmers markets through her company, Red Hen Cannery. She lives on an avocado ranch in Southern California with her husband, their daughter and their dog.
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