Richard Diedrichs

Richard Diedrichs grew up in Los Angeles. He worked as a magazine editor and writer in Seattle, was an editor at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught Fourth and Fifth Grades, and Kindergarten in public elementary schools around the east San Francisco Bay Area. He has published short stories in literary journals and four books. He is currently an editor at Narrative Magazine. He lives in Palm Springs, California.

Richard was ordained a Zen priest in 1984, training with Genki Takabayashi Roshi, Joshu Sasaki Roshi, Diane Eshin Rizzetto, and Gavin Harrison. He was sensei in the Children’s Program at Daifukuji Zen Temple in Kona, Hawaii. He is author of "Living in Blue Sky Mind," published by MSI Press.