“She’s the author of two collections of short stories, 3 a.m. and There’s a Huge Pimple On My Nose, is a student at the University of Southern California and maintains a nonprofit foundation, Write On!, to “encourage children to gain knowledge and have fun reading and writing.” Her publication credits include a column for Family Circle and works in Writer’s Digest, Justine, Writing, and Cicada magazines as well as in books Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV, Chicken Soup for the Girl’s Soul, and So, You Wanna Be a Writer?, among others.

“She was a featured guest at the first annual Jack London Children’s Writing Camp, chosen as Cosmo Girl! magazine’s “Girl of the Month,” and was awarded the Jackie Kennedy-Onassis/Jefferson Award and a Congressional Award Gold Medal for working to increase literacy awareness through her “Write On!” foundation. She received a silver medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and won first place in both Byline magazine’s “New Talent Short Story Contest” and the Gulf Coast Writers Association’s “Let’s Write” literary contest. She was also recently a moderator on a panel discussing young writers at the 2007 Santa Barbara Writers Conference.”

Oh, and she’s 20 years old.

Here’s an interview with Dallas Woodburn, a colleague and friend, on Writing World:
http://www.writing-world.com/foster/foster15.shtml

She blogs at http://dallaswoodburn.blogspot.com/