Poet and Zen monk, John High (Ninso) has received fellowships from the National Ednowment of the Arts, the National Endowment of the Humanities, four Fulbright fellowships. He is the author of over a dozen books, including his most recent novel Scrolls of a Temple Sweeper (Wet Cement Press),and a forthcoming co-translation of Osip Mandelstam’s poetry (Wesleyan University Press). A co-founder and former director of LIU Brooklyn’s MFA Program, he has taught at universities in Istanbul, Moscow, Hangzhou, and San Francisco, and facilitated workshops in creative transformation with children, teachers, social workers, incarcerated youth, and writers in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. He has read/performed his work internationally and in Paris for Upstairs at Duroc, Berkeley Books, Paris Lit Up, Spoken Word Paris, and the Ivy Writers Paris series. His daily ensō practice with Zen koans, teachings, and meditations can be found here, and here. Based in Lisbon, he lives with his wife, Andrea Clark Libin, also a writer.