| Wayne Amtzis was born in Corpus Christi, Texas,
in 1947 and grew up in Staten Island, New York.
He studied at Syracuse University and UC Berkeley
and received his masters in Creative Writing
from San Francisco State University. He has
lived and worked in Asia since 1976 and his
writing has appeared internationally and in
Nepali translation. He is co-translator from
the Nepali of Two Sisters:
the poetry of Benju Sharma and Manju Kanchuli and
of From The Lake, Love: the poetry of
Banira Giri. His photos of Kathmandu appear
in the collection
flatLine witness
and a book-length series of his poems and
photos has been published in Studies in Nepali
History and Society Vol. 6. 1, June 2001. He is
currently working with the poet Purna Vaidya on
translations from Nepal Bhasa. A long-time student
of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche and Tulku Urgyen
Rinpoche, he has been teaching meditation under
the guidance of Tsoknyi Rinpoche in Kathmandu,
Nepal since 1996. |
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Photo by Rachel Amtzis |
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