Stone Nest - Paperback

Collins, Richard: - Richard Collins taught at universities in the United States, Wales, Romania, and Bulgaria before retiring as Dean Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at California State University Bakersfield. He spent a decade at Louisiana State University (where he was the first faculty advisor for New Delta Review) and a decade at Xavier University of Louisiana (where he edited the Xavier Review). He has been a Fulbright researcher in London and Fulbright senior lecturer at the Universities of Bucharest and Timişoara, as well as a Leverhulme Fellow in Wales. He has translated poetry from Romanian and books from French, including Taisen Deshimaru's Autobiography of a Zen Monk (Hohm Press, 2022) and Philippe Coupey's Zen Fragments: Teachings and Reflections of a Zen Monk in Paris (Hohm Press, 2024). He also edited Deshimaru's Mushotoku Mind: The Heart of the Heart Sutra (Hohm Presss, 2012). His own books include John Fante: A Literary Portrait (Guernica Editions, 2000), No Fear Zen: Discovering Balance in an Unbalanced World (Hohm Press, 2015), and In Search of the Hermaphrodite: A Memoir (Tough Poets Press, 2024). Since 2016 he has been abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple and now resides in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he directs Stone Nest Zen Dojo.