Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of Closed Ranks, the editor of Nobody’s Home and level:deepsouth, and the coordinator of the Fitzgerald Museum’s annual Literary Contest.

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Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and award-winning teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. His most recent book Closed Ranks: The Whitehurst Case in Post-Civil Rights Montgomery was published by NewSouth Books in 2018.

Biography for Introductions:

Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama, a city long billed as “the Cradle of the Confederacy and the Birthplace of Civil Rights.” Living in the Heart of Dixie, Dickson writes from the perspective of a person whose life cannot be separated from the history of the Deep South. He began his career at independent publisher NewSouth Books, where he worked in both the business and creative sides of company’s operation. Dickson taught creative writing at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School for nineteen years and was awarded grants, fellowships, and residencies the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Gannett Foundation , the Surdna Foundation, the Lillian E. Smith Foundation, the Center for Arts Education at the Boston Arts Academy, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the Alabama Bicentennial Commission; he has also been a participant in Arizona State University’s National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy. Foster was named the state’s Secondary Education Teacher of the Year by the Alabama PTA in 2010. He currently teaches at Huntingdon College. His published books include I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker; The Life and Poetry of John Beecher; Children of the Changing South; and most recently Closed Ranks.

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Publishers’ webpages for books:

I Just Make People Up
The Life and Poetry of John Beecher 
Children of the Changing South
Closed Ranks

Current projects:

level:deepsouth— for Generation X
Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore

Other author pages:

Amazon