Andrew Schelling

Andrew Schelling, born 14 January 1953 at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington D.C. The 1970s and ‘80s he spent in Northern California: studied ecology of mind with Gregory Bateson and poetry with Norman O. Brown. Took up Sanskrit language; developed wilderness skills in Sierra Nevada and Coast Range mountains. In 1990 moved to Colorado to take work at Naropa University, where he teaches poetry and Sanskrit. Among twenty-odd titles are From the Arapaho Songbook and The Facts at Dog Tank Spring. Another book, Tracks Along the Left Coast: Jaime de Angulo & Pacific Coast Culture, is a folkloric account of linguistics, old time stories, poets, and cattle rustling in California. Besides Mirabai, he has seven books of translation from India’s old languages, most recently Songs of the Sons & Daughters of Buddha, with Anne Waldman. Schelling lives in the “middle mountains,” between the high plains and Colorado’s Indian Peaks.