Jeanne Foster was born in Florida and grew up in New Orleans. She now divides her time between Berkeley, where she is Professor of English at Saint Mary’s College and teaches creative writing, and (as often as she can) Le Convertoie, a medieval borgo in Tuscany. She is currently involved in two Italian-centered projects: a memoir of the ballroom dance world in Italy (Her passion is ballroom dancing) and the translation in collaboration with Alan Williamson of selected poems of Bianca Tarozzi, poet and professor at the University of Verona. Jeanne’s poems have appeared in APR, Hudson Review, Triquarterly, Ploughshares, Literary Imagination, and others. She is co-editor with Phyllis Stowell of Appetite: Food as Metaphor, an anthology of poems by women (BOA). “The First Workshop: a Memoir of James Wright” was published in APR. Her poetry collection, A Blessing of Safe Travel, won the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Award. Her poem “Wild Artichokes” has been nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize.

A Music of Grace: The Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry (Peter Lang Publishing, 1995), A Blessing of Safe Travel (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1980), Great Horned Owl (White Pine Press, 1980)

Appetite: Food as Metaphor (BOA Editions Limited, 2002)

American Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Literary Imagination, Naugatuck River Review, North American Review, Paris Review, TriQuarterly