This World

A poet and orchardist, Teddy Macker lives with his wife and two daughters on a small farm in Carpinteria, California. His writing appears widely: the Antioch Review, Columbia, New Letters, Orion, Resurgence & Ecologist, The Massachusetts Review, Tin House, The Sun, and various anthologies. Among his honors is the Reginald S. Tickner Creative Writing Fellowship of the Gilman School in Baltimore. He lectures in the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Born in Vienna in 1926, Brother David Steindl-Rast has been a practicing Benedictine monk for over sixty years. Seen by many to be the successor to Thomas Merton, Brother David was one of the first Vatican-sanctioned delegates to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue. His Zen teachers included Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, Soen Nakagawa Roshi, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and Eido Shimano Roshi. A recipient of the Martin Buber Award and senior member of the Mount Saviour Monastery in Pine City, New York, he is the author of numerous books, including the classics of spirituality The Ground We Share and Deeper Than Words.