Authors
Shyam Dodge
Shyam Dodge is a Harvard educated former monk. Raised in an ashram, he has been practicing and teaching meditation and Asian philosophy for over 20 years. In his post-monastic life he has become a sought after raconteur, a restaurateur in India, and an “underground hero writer.” His books include a memoir, a collection of teaching stories, and a forthcoming war narrative of Hawaii. In addition to his work as a scholar and critic, he is a fiction writer, satirist, and pop culture essayist.
Patrick Bishop
Patrick Bishop was a Japanese American orphan, nineteen sixties psychedelic adventurer, traveling homeless monk, spiritual teacher, ‘80s Soap Opera Star of General Hospital fame, beloved father and husband, and a damned good poet. Rose Ave Press will continue to publish his works posthumously.
Samadhi
Samadhi has lived in the Philippine mountain ranges, once visited Guam, spent a long humid night in Hong Kong, and has created baked pastries in a variety of uncomplimentary climates to make sure that her delicate recipes could withstand all forms of geometric pressure. She is famous for once baking a cake in the middle of a South Pacific hurricane. Samadhi is the author of many upcoming books on the fine art of baking.
Book Designer
Scott L. Hartwig
Scott L. Hartwig once lived in the woods as a runaway teenager eating weeds in South Carolina, was an Army medic in Germany, a nurse in San Antonio Texas, a short-lived Mortician, door-to-door Bible salesman, technical writer, rising star of the dot-com bubble, San Francisco aesthete, almost ex-patriot, once photo realist painter, graphic designer… and now cultivates young artists in Venice Beach California while he creates book covers as pieces of fine art.