Editorial Work
Contemplative, Interfaith
& Consciousness
Studies
I'm Scott. Since 2017, I’ve lived in Prague, where my editorial work and contemplative practice have developed in parallel. While I practice Tibetan Buddhism in the Kagyu tradition under Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, I also attend weekly silent meditation sessions in Catholic church crypts and a local Carmelite center. In 2025, I co-founded the Dharma View weekly meditation sessions in Vinohrady (pictured here).
In addition to doing editorial work for Tergar, I wrote an article for their blog.
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 all outreach and event coordination — including programming with visiting teachers (e.g., Tibetan Buddhist nuns from the Sakya tradition), and partnerships with Charles University's Kampus Hybernská. PMC is, by design, volunteer work. It gives back more than I put in.
PMC began as a simple events directory and has grown into something more focused: making space for teachers with genuine lineage, not just wellness techniques.
Consciousness Studies
Alongside my dharma practice, I have a long-standing independent interest in philosophy of mind, specifically non-physicalist approaches to the hard problem of consciousness, and the thinkers who take that question seriously without flinching.
Editorial Work
My editorial and communications work for institutional and academic clients translates directly to the needs of contemplative, interfaith, and consciousness studies organizations.
Copyediting & Proofreading — Books, journals, dharma texts, and academic manuscripts. Experience across major publishers including Penguin Random House and Hachette Book Group. Fluency in the terminology and conceptual vocabulary of Buddhist and contemplative literature.
Institutional Communications & Newsletters — Annual reports, donor communications, program materials, and public-facing content. Current institutional clients include Prague Castle and the Czech Senate.
Grant Writing Support — Pre-submission English review and editorial development for grant applications, including EU Horizon programs. Deep experience with research teams preparing work for international English-language audiences.
Web Content & Editorial — Web copy, blog editing, and content development for organizations communicating with English-speaking audiences globally.
Dharma Text Editing — Editorial support for teachings, transcripts, and practice texts where precision of language matters.
Writing & Literary
My engagement with contemplative territory in writing predates my formal practice. The underlying subject I kept returning to as a poet — impermanence — was shaped early on by the Zen monks and haiku poets who wrote final poems before dying, specifically those 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 two full collections, elsewhere (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) and Carpe Demons (Unsolicited Press, 2014), both open with epigraphs by monastic Zen poets — Gizan Zenrai and Kokei Sochin respectively — as described in a 2015 interview I did with Rain Taxi. I was also published in the Buddhist Poetry Review during this period. I completed elsewhere during a 2009 writer’s residency at the Montana Artists Refuge in Basin, Montana.
On the editorial side, the book I'm most glad to have worked on is the celebrated John Minford translation of the Tao Te Ching (Penguin Random House, 2018) — a sacred text that rewards the close attention required by copyediting.
Professional Background
MFA, Creative Writing (University of Montana)
BA, English, minor in Philosophy (University of Texas)
Literary representation with Transatlantic Agency
Czech trade license (Živnostenský list)
Remote, available internationally
EU entity invoicing
Prague Castle
Czech Senate
Charles University
Czech Academy of Sciences
Penguin Random House
Hachette Book Group
Karolinum Press
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.