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Douglas Penick’s work has appeared in Tricycle, Descant, New England Review, Parabola, Chicago Quarterly, Agni, Kyoto Journal, Berfrois, Lit Hub, The Utne Reader, Consequences, Cahiers de l’Herne, and On The Seawall among other outlets. He has written texts for operas (Munich Biennale, Santa Fe Opera), and thanks to a grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation, three separate episodes from the Gesar of Ling epic. Other publications include the novel Journey of The North Star (Publerati, 2012), a translation (with Charles Ré) of Pascal Quignard’s A Terrace in Rome (Wakefield, 2016), The Age of Waiting (Arrowsmith, 2021), exploring the sensibility of aging amid ecological collapse, and The Oceans of Cruelty (New York Review of Books, 2024), a retelling of an ancient Indian story cycle. (Published in India by Harper-Collins India in 2026 as Vikram and the Vetāla.) In 2025, Punctum books published his Winter Light- On Late Life’s Radiance about discoveries emerging in old age.

Location:: Bouldrt, CO
Birthdate:: 30 December (82 years old)