John High

A recipient of four Fulbright Fellowships, John High has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and Arts International. He is a member of the Moscow Club Poetry and a founding editor of Five Fingers Review. Poet, translator, Zen monk--he has written ten books, including the novel THE DESIRE NOTEBOOKS. VANISHING ACTS is the fourth volume in the interconnected series of poetry collections following HERE, A BOOK OF UNKNOWING, and YOU ARE EVERYTHING...See more

A recipient of four Fulbright Fellowships, John High has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and Arts International. He is a member of the Moscow Club Poetry and a founding editor of Five Fingers Review. Poet, translator, Zen monk--he has written ten books, including the novel THE DESIRE NOTEBOOKS. VANISHING ACTS is the fourth volume in the interconnected series of poetry collections following HERE, A BOOK OF UNKNOWING, and YOU ARE EVERYTHING YOU ARE NOT. He has taught creative writing and literature in Moscow, Istanbul, Hangzhou, and San Francisco, and currently directs the MFA Creative Writing Program at LIU Brooklyn. See less