Jennifer Ruth Keller is a writer and educator living in eastern Washington state. With degrees from Stanford (BA, PhD) and The University of Chicago Divinity School (MA) she has taught at research universities, liberal arts colleges, and state land-grant schools. She was the Robert Aird Chair in Humanities at Deep Springs College for five years, as well as the inaugural professor of The Arete Project, an all-women’s educational program built on the Deep Springs model. Her book on forgetting and the written word, Ordinary Oblivion and The Self Unmoored was published in 2014.
Currently she is writing a book about living in the boonies and the crevices of commitment in ordinary life. In addition to teaching, she has worked in political fundraising, the wine industry, and car sales. Yes, car sales. Her classes and sojourns integrate multiple modes of experiential learning in places set apart from the ordinary.
Though he had always been a careful planner, life on the frontier had long ago convinced him of the fragility of plans.
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove