Ninso John High

Zen monk and poet, Ninso John High, is the recipient of four Fulbrights and has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships (fiction and translation) and a 2020 National Endowment for the Humanities for a translation project of Osip Mandelstam's Voronezh Notebooks. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and translation-the most recent, vanishing acts, a work of cross-genre writings (Talisman House, 2018). A founder and former director of the LIU, Brooklyn MFA...See more

Zen monk and poet, Ninso John High, is the recipient of four Fulbrights and has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships (fiction and translation) and a 2020 National Endowment for the Humanities for a translation project of Osip Mandelstam's Voronezh Notebooks. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and translation-the most recent, vanishing acts, a work of cross-genre writings (Talisman House, 2018). A founder and former director of the LIU, Brooklyn MFA Program, he is currently on pilgrimage working with children, teachers, social workers, and writers, facilitating workshops in creative transformation in Cambodia, China, and Portugal. See less