Alex BaskinAlex Baskin is a hospital chaplain and a poet, rooted in over a decade of Buddhist practice and his upbringing in an orthodox Jewish family and community. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Tufts University and a master's of divinity degee from Harvard Divinity School. His poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, Redivider, The Christian Century, poetry.onl, and elsewhere. He is a Best of the Net nominee, a runner-up for the MoonLit Getaway Poetry Contest, a finalist for the Lucky Jefferson Poetry Prize, and an honorable mention for the Northwind Writing Award. He has an essay in Refuge in the Storm: Buddhist Voices in Crisis Care (North Atlantic Books, 2023) and a poem in the anthology Ache: The Body's Experience of Religion (Flipped Mitten Press, 2024.) This is his debut chapbook. Originally from New Jersey, he lives in Massachusetts. Read More Read Less