Editorial Work
Contemplative, Interfaith
& Consciousness
Studies
Since 2017 I've lived in Prague, where my editorial work and contemplative practice have developed side by side. I practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and also sit weekly in silent meditation in Catholic church crypts and at a local Carmelite center. In 2025 I co-founded the Dharma View weekly meditation sessions in Vinohrady (pictured here).
I bring to sacred and sensitive texts the same precision I bring to institutional English, with fluency in the vocabulary of contemplative and interfaith literature.
Prague Meditation Circle
In 2024 I founded Prague Meditation Circle, a non-commercial, non-sectarian community resource for free English-language meditation and contemplative events in Prague. I built and maintain the website, run the WhatsApp community and subgroups, manage the Instagram presence, and handle outreach and event coordination — including programming with visiting teachers (such as Tibetan Buddhist nuns of the Sakya tradition) and partnerships with Charles University's Kampus Hybernská. What began as a simple events directory has grown into something more focused: making space for teachers with genuine lineage, not just wellness techniques. PMC is, by design, volunteer work — it gives back more than I put in.
Editorial Work for Contemplative Organizations
My institutional and academic editing translates directly to the needs of contemplative, interfaith, and consciousness-studies organizations:
Copyediting & proofreading of books, journals, dharma texts, and academic manuscripts, with experience across major publishers including Penguin Random House and Hachette Book Group.
Institutional communications & newsletters — annual reports, donor communications, program materials, and public-facing content.
Dharma text editing — teachings, transcripts, and practice texts where precision matters.
Consciousness Studies
Alongside my dharma practice, I have a long-standing independent interest in the philosophy of mind — specifically non-physicalist approaches to the hard problem of consciousness, and the thinkers who take that question seriously.
Writing & Literary
My engagement with contemplative territory predates my formal practice. The subject I kept returning to as a poet — impermanence — was shaped early by the Zen monks and haiku poets collected in Yoel Hoffmann's Japanese Death Poems. My chapbook One Day There Will Be Nothing to Show We Were Ever Here (Bedouin Books, 2009) takes its title from that preoccupation; my collections elsewhere (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) and Carpe Demons (Unsolicited Press, 2014) each open with epigraphs by monastic Zen poets. On the editorial side, the book I'm most glad to have worked on is the John Minford translation of the Tao Te Ching (Penguin Random House, 2018).
Work Together
If your organization works in the contemplative, interfaith, or consciousness-studies space and needs reliable, professional English — for publications, communications, grants, or web content — get in touch.