Jeanne FosterJeanne Foster is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College of California. Her poems have appear widely in such places as the Hudson Review, Triquarterly, Ploughshares, Literary Imagination, and other. Her most recent collection is Goodbye, Silver Sister (Northwestern, 2015). She is co-editor of Appetite: Food as Metaphor (BOA, 2002). "The First Workshop: a Memoir of James Wright" was published in American Poetry Review (2001). Her critical work, A Music of Grace, explores the sacred in contemporary American poetry (Lang, 1995). For Instants of Faith (1985), she translated a group of 25 poems by Juan Ramon Jimenez. Other poetry collections include Great Horned Owl (White Pine, 1980) and A Blessing of Safe Travel, which won the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Award (Princeton, 1980). A finalist for the 2015 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Award, she has received grants from the Woodrow Wilson, CAPS, MacDowell, and St. Lawrence foundations. She is also an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister. She currently divides her time between Berkeley, CA, and Le Convertoie, a medieval borgo in Tuscany. Read More Read Less