Your Form Became My Own

Jeanne Foster is Professor Emerita at Saint Mary’s College of California. She also is a Unitarian Universalist minister. Born in Florida, she grew up in New Orleans and graduated with Honors from Tulane University. On a Woodrow Wilson scholarship, she studied with acclaimed process philosopher, Charles Hartshorne, and German Heideggerian, Karsten Harries, at the University of Texas in Austin. It was after she moved to Boston that she began to focus on creative writing at the Boston School for Adult Education. At Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, she worked with Galway Kinnell and, while there, was persuaded to spend some time in Buffalo, where John Logan invited her to sit-in on his writing workshop. He also introduced her to James Wright, visiting one summer at the University of Buffalo, who became her primary mentor and a friend. From Buffalo she took a wide leap across the continent to Berkeley, where she received an M.Div. degree followed by a Ph.D. in Religion, Literature, and the Ar