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.

Foster began writing as a teenager in the 1980s and has been at it for about thirty-five years. After high school, he earned an English degree. His first publications came in the Montgomery Advertiser‘s “Go!” entertainment section and in the local indie paper King Kudzu. Since then, he has written or edited seven published books and a range of shorter works, including essays, articles, reviews, poems, and short stories. Foster received a Literary Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 2020, and that project, Nobody’s Home, reached its fifth anniversary in the summer of 2025. His most recent full-length book, a commemorative history book for the 150th anniversary of Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School, was published in October 2023. 

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Books  •  Nonfiction  •  Poetry  •  Projects