Born and raised in Minneapolis, Amy Hollowell has long been a part of the Anglophone poetry scene in Paris, where she has lived since 1982. She is the author of several poetry collections and chapbooks, most recently Here We Are (Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2015), Giacomettrics (corrupt press, 2012) and Peneloping (corrupt press, 2011). She is a former student of the writing program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, founded by Chogyam Trungpa in Boulder, Colorado. In addition, she works as a journalist and translator and has been on the staff of the International Herald Tribune (now called theInternational New York Times) since 1983. A longtime practitioner and teacher of Zen Buddhism, in 2004 she founded the Wild Flower Zen group, which she continues to lead in France and Portugal.