Richard Collins

Richard Collins, abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple, directs Stone Nest Dojo in Sewanee, Tennessee. Dean Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at California State University, Bakersfield, he has taught at universities in California, Louisiana, Bulgaria, Romania, and Wales. His work has appeared in Religion and the Arts, Sagesses Bouddhistes (France), Urthona: Buddhism and the Arts (UK), Shō Poetry Journal, Think, and Pensive. His books include No Fear Zen (2015), a translation of Taisen Deshimaru’s Autobiography of a Zen Monk (2022), and In Search of the Hermaphrodite: A Memoir (forthcoming from Tough Poets Press, 2024).