Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore is the director of the interfaith publishing houses Fons Vitae and Quinta Essentia, a contributing editor for Parabola magazine, a founding member of the Thomas Merton Foundation, et al. She is both a writer and film producer– among recent films are Beads of Faith: The Universal Use of the Rosary and Death and Transformation: The Personal Reflections of Huston Smith, Autumn 2006 (co-produced with Elena Lloyd-Sidle). BA, Sarah Lawrence College (Joseph Campbell was her don, 1965), studied at the American and al-Azhar Universities in Cairo (1969-79), MA in education (1981), research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University 1983-1990, currently preparing her PhD at the Faculty of Divinity at Canterbury, Kent.