Bill Porter
born 1943, Los Angeles, California
grew up in northern Idaho
served in the US Army
attended U.C. Santa Barbara and graduate school at Columbia University
dropped out of Columbia halfway through a Ph.D. program in anthropology in 1972
lived in a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan
worked for English-language radio stations in Taiwan and Hong Kong
published translations include the complete poems of Cold Mountain (Han-shan), Pickup (Shih-te), and Big Shield (Feng-kan), as well as the works of Stonehouse (Shih-wu), Sung Po-jen (for which he was awarded a PEN West translation prize), and Lao-tzu (for which he was a finalist for the same award)
author of Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits
currently lives in Port Townsend, Washington
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