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, New York Post, Santa Barbara Independent and elsewhere. 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 journalism at Louisiana State University and 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 now directed the Carpinteria Valley Art Council's Art by the Sea Summer Camp.
Currently, Foley teaches art and writing and she lives on an avocado ranch in Southern California with her husband and their dog.
Her stories and poems have appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Skanky Possum, Santa Barbara Magazine, New York Post, Santa Barbara Independent and elsewhere. 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 journalism at Louisiana State University and 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 now directed the Carpinteria Valley Art Council's Art by the Sea Summer Camp.
Currently, Foley teaches art and writing and she lives on an avocado ranch in Southern California with her husband and their dog.
