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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 the author
of the poetry collections: City on Their
Backs and Sandcastle City/Quicksand
Nation and the editor and co-translator
of Days in the Life, translations from
Nepali and Nepal Bhasa; 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, The
Decisive/The Unresolved, has been
published in Studies in Nepali History
and Society. He exhibited his street
photos at Siddhartha Gallery, Kathmandu
in 2001, 2002 and 2004. A student of
Penor Rinpoche and Tulku Urgyen
Rinpoche, he practices and teaches
meditation in Kathmandu, Nepal under the
guidance of Tsoknyi Rinpoche,
emphasizing the relation between
meditation and creative expression.
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Photo by Rachel
Amtzis
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