Robert TremmelRobert Tremmel grew up in Northwest Iowa and went to the University of Iowa. After hauling furniture and teaching high school for a few years, he went back to Iowa as a graduate student, taught seven years at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, an then finished out his teaching career at Iowa State University. In 1992, along with three others, he co-founded the Des Moines Zen Center, and has practiced there ever since. He has published widely as both an English educator and a poet, and is the author of three books of poetry as well as Zen and the Practice of Teaching English. He and his wife Michelle live in Ankney, Iowa. Read More Read Less