Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of Closed Ranks and I Just Make People Up, and the editor of Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore.

As a writer, editor, and teacher, Foster Dickson’s primary subjects are the modern South, education, social justice, and sustainability. Given his own education and experience, Foster’s interests mainly include a commitment to the value of education and schools, literacy and writing, and the arts and humanities. Connected to those are his beliefs in the inherent value of fresh and nutritious food for everyone, sustainable environmental practices, open and vibrant community politics, free public libraries that serve diverse audiences, full voting rights for all eligible citizens, and a complex understanding of one’s own local culture and economy. Foster holds a current Alabama teaching certificate in English Language Arts Secondary Education and is also an NASPA Certified Peer Educator trainer. He is available for freelance work on longer (book-length) projects, for shorter assignments, and for speaking engagements or presentations.

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Outside of writing and teaching, Foster is usually either reading, messing around on one his guitars, watching some old movie, throwing a tennis ball to his dog, spending time with family, or finding a reason to be outside. His personal interests are his Catholic faith, cooking and eating, craft beers, gardening and urban farming, most kinds of music, book arts and letterpress printing, classic and independent films, family history and genealogy, cultural criticism, and Southern politics.

Foster likes long live tracks by the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers Band, and Widespread Panic; Levi’s jeans, Liberty overalls, Keen and Merrell shoes; Miller High Life, New Belgium Fat Tire, and Shiner Bock; whiskey from George Dickel or Clyde May, a bacon cheeseburger with sweet potato fries, a cold Grapico on a hot day, black coffee with a little honey in it, an Argentine malbec or Italian chianti, spider lilies, paper whites, and Mexican petunias; and a plate of homestyle food with one vegetable of each color. His turnoffs are bottled water, ice-breaker activities, pop country and bro country, bell peppers and black olives, cups with lids, traffic, waste, and most of all, rudeness.

*This Foster Dickson is not the Foster Dickson who works in youth ministry. 

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