Norman Fischer is a poet, author, and senior American Zen Buddhist priest. A former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, he is the founder and teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation, a network of spiritual communities and projects dedicated to sharing Zen and Buddhist teachings widely with the world. Norman began publishing poetry in the late 1970's as part of a San Francisco Bay Area group of experimental writers, and has since published thirty books of prose and poetry, most recently NATURE (Tuumba Press, 2021) and THERE WAS A CLATTERING AS... (Lavender Ink, 2021). Norman lives in Muir Beach California with his wife Kathie, who is also a Zen priest.
