Andrew Schelling
Faculty, Naropa University
Faculty, Deer Park Institute, Himachal Pradesh, India
Boulder, Colorado
Elected 2008 (Trustee, Faculty)
BA, University of California, Santa Cruz
Attended University of California, Berkeley

Andrew Schelling is a poet, translator and essayist, whose writings are known for their ecological focus and an engagement with the poetic traditions of Asia. He has authored or edited eighteen books, most recently a collection of poetry, Old Tale Road (Empty Bowl Press), and a revised second edition of Dropping the Bow: Poems from Ancient India (White Pine, 2008), a volume that received the Academy of American Poets award for translation when it originally appeared in 1992.

He is the editor of The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry (Wisdom, 2005), which presents the writings of thirty contemporary Buddhist-influenced poets. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area throughout the 1980s, Schelling co-edited the influential poetics journal, Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K," and was active
in the region's lively literary scene until moving to Colorado and joining Naropa University's faculty in 1990.

Schelling serves on the faculty of Deer Park Institute in Himachal Pradesh, India, an institution founded by Dzongsar Khyentse Norbu, Rinpoche, and dedicated to classical Indian studies. At Naropa University, he teaches poetry and translation courses, oversees the MFA concentration in translation, is the editor-in-chief of Bombay Gin, and teaches Sanskrit for the Department of Religious Studies.