Jeanne Foster grew up in New Orleans. She is Professor Emerita at Saint Mary’s College of California and former minister of the Modesto Unitarian Universalist church. At UUCB she sings in the choir and is a former Worship Associate. She is also a writer and translator of poetry and prose. Her books of poetry are A Blessing of Safe Travel, which won the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Award; Goodbye, Silver Sister; and Your Form Became My Own.  Appetite: Food as Metaphoris an anthology of poems by women. A Music of Grace is a critical work, which asks the question, Is there still  sacred ground to stand on? She is co-translator of The Living Theatre: Selected Poems of Bianca Tarozzi, which won the Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. A selection of her poems translated into Italian will come out this Fall from the Italian publisher, Molesini, Venice.  She is looking forward to returning to Italy in September for the first time since the pandemic.  Her passion is ballroom dancing and, in particular, ballroom dancing in Tuscany.