Jeanne Foster is co-editor with Phyllis Stowell of Appetite: Food as Metaphor (BOA, 2002), an anthology of women poets. Her poems have appeared in APR, Hudson Review, Triquarterly, Ploughshares, Literary Imagination, and others. Foster is Professor of Graduate Liberal Studies at Saint Mary's College of California. A former MacDowell Colony Fellow, she has received a New York State Creative Artists Public Service Award in Poetry and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Philosophy.