Peter Levitt is a Zen teacher in the Suzuki-roshi lineage and a Preceptor within the White Plum Asanga. He founded and guides the Salt Spring Zen Circle on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. Levitt has authored seventeen books of poetry and prose. He served as Associate Editor of The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo and co-edited The Essential Dogen with Kazuaki Tanahashi. He and Tanahashi translated The Complete Cold Mountain and Blossom Awakening. With Rebecca Nie, he translated Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women. He received the Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry in 1989.