Peter Schireson has trained in Zen in the US and Japan and received Dharma Transmission in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Zen lineage from Chikudo Lewis Richmond. He is a poet whose writing has appeared in Post Road, Rhino, Blue Earth Review, Quiddity, Pleiades, Hotel Amerika, and other journals. His chapbook – The Welter of Me and You – won the 2013 Coal Hill Review Chapbook Prize.