Dean Rolston (1953-1994) practiced law on Wall Street, and then directed the 56 Bleeker Gallery art gallery in New York City. He was a contributor to Artforum and author of the memoir Remembering Dying: A Mahayana Perspective on AIDS. AIDS-related material for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, including Memento Mori, is sponsored, in part, by the Giorno Poetry Project/The AIDS Treatment Project.