Andrew Schelling

Andrew Schelling (born January 14, 1953) is an American poet and translator.

Life
Born in Washington, D.C., he grew up in New England. He moved west to Northern California in 1973. There he explored wilderness regions of the Coast Range and Sierra Nevadas. He studied at University of California, Santa Cruz and studied with Norman O. Brown. He studied Sanskrit and Asian literature at University of California, Berkeley. In 1990, he joined the faculty at Naropa University, where he teaches poetry, Sanskrit, and wilderness writing.

An ecologist, naturalist, and explorer of wilderness areas, he has travelled extensively in North America, Europe, India, and the Himalayas.

He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Recognition

 * 1992 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets
 * Two grants for translation from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

Translated

 * original 1993
 * original 1993