Andrew Schelling lives in the Southern Rocky Mountain bioregion. He has worked on land use in the American West, ecology, conservation of wildlife, and wolf reintroduction. His twenty books include poetry, essays, anthologies, and translations. For thirty years he has studied Sanskrit & Indian raga, publishing seven collections of translation from India's early poets. In recent years he has delved into Native American languages, and investigates animal tracks & the grammar of the ecological world. Recent books include THE REAL PEOPLE OF WIND AND RAIN: TALKS, ESSAYS, AND AN INTERVIEW (Singing Horse Press, 2014), FROM THE ARAPAHO SONGBOOK (La Alameda Press, 2011) and The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature (2011). He teaches at Naropa University in Colorado, and at Deer Park Institute in India's architecturally rich & bird-thronged Himalayan foothills.
