Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of two books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013) and Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and is contributing editor, along with Joy Harjo, for the new Native Nations poetry anthology When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through. She is of German, Dutch, and Mvskoke descent, and is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She lives in San Francisco.