Richard von Sturmer is a New Zealand writer who has published three books: We Xerox Your Zebras (Modern House, 1988), A Network of Dissolving Threads (Auckland University Press, 19...view moreRichard von Sturmer is a New Zealand writer who has published three books: We Xerox Your Zebras (Modern House, 1988), A Network of Dissolving Threads (Auckland University Press, 1991), and Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose (HeadworX, 2005). As well as being a lyricist for several New Zealand bands, including Blam Blam Blam, he and his partner, Amala Wrightson, toured the country in the 1980’s as the performing duo, The Humanimals. From 1993 to 2003 he was based at the Rochester Zen Center, a Buddhist community in upstate New York. Now back in New Zealand, he continues to write and works as an ESOL Advisory Officer with the Ministry of Education.view less