Robert Schwoch has practiced Zen for more than 30 years and has been a member and Zen student at ZLMC since 2019. He is certified by ZLMC as a Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher. He is a widely published journalist and writer of fiction and essays, a Master of Fine Arts graduate of the Writing Seminars at Bennington College, and emeritus senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught creative writing and literature in the journalism school. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.