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Gary Gach was born in Los Angeles in 1947 and earned a B.A. in English (UCLA-SFSU). He's worked as a bookstore clerk, hospital administrator, legal secretary, editor-in-chief, stevedore, typographer, and web weaver. He currently teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies.

Recipient of an American Book Award and a Northern California Book Award, he's published a best-selling guide to the Internet, a book for writers, a book of poems, three translations of poetry by Ko Un SSN, and the anthology What Book!? ‹ Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop. He's contributed to over 100 journals and anthologies, including The Book of Luminous Things, BuddhaDharma, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Inquiring Mind, Language for a New Century, The Nation, The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Shambhala Sun, Technicians of the Sacred, Tricycle, Turning Wheel, Veterans of War Veterans of Peace, Whole Earth Review, and Yoga Journal. He's indexed as a T'ang translator, and his work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Korean, and Russian.

He's been blessed by wonderful teachers, beginning with his parents. As a boy, he avidly read an uncle's copies of transcripts of talks at Ojai by Krishnamurti. He first practiced silent meditation with a group at a Quaker retreat in 1964. Saladin Paul Reps taught him meditation at a shop on Sunset Boulevard a couple of years later. In San Francisco, he was introduced to zazen by Dainin Katagiri Roshi. He was fortunate to hear the chuckle in Alan Watts' voice, to see the twinkle in Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's eye, and to dance to the singing of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. His Buddhist root lineage is in the tradition of the Thich Nhat Hanh.

He lives on San Francisco's Russian Hill and swims in the Bay. He hopes to write one or two really immortal haiku in his lifetime.

His home page: http://word.to
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