Sam Guthrie is a nonfiction writer who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and their two cats, Tiberius and Oblio. He was ordained at the age of seventeen in the Soto school of Zen Buddhism under Dainin Katagiri Roshi, with whom he studied for twelve years. For the last twenty years, he has been a practitioner of the Way of Radical Non-Seeking. You can find more of his writing at his blog, lionabovethemind.com.