Richard Foerster has worked as a lexicographer, textbook editor, freelance writer, typesetter, and as the editor of the literary magazine Chelsea. He is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Double Going, which BOA Editions published in January 2002. He has received the Discovery/The Nation Award, Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Maine Arts Commission, and the 2000/2001 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.