Since the appearance of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism, there are now 100,000 copies in print. His seminal anthology What Book!? ~~ Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (1998), featuring 350 selections from 125 contributors, is recipient of an American Book Award, and now in a third printing. He's brought out three books in English by Korea's unofficial poet laureate: Flowers of a Moment (Northern California Book Award, Translation); Songs for Tomorrow: 1961-2001; and Ten Thousand Lives (2nd printing; with introduction by Robert Hass). He's also author of Pocket Guide to the Internet; Preparing the Ground: Poems 1960-1970; andWriters.net. His work has appeared in over 150 newspapers, magazines, journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, A Book of Luminous Things, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Language for a New Century, The Nation, The New Yorker, Technicians of the Sacred, and Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace He is an instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies.

Born in 1947, Gach grew up in Hollywood, where he was student body president and a champion speaker and debater, and performed on the stage, movies, television, and radio. He was educated at the University of California at Los Angeles and San Francisco State University, from which he received a BA in English. He lives in San Francisco, where he swims in the Bay. His website is http://word.to

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