Tenzin Sangpo

TENZIN SANGPO is a Tibetan refugee who grew up in Nepal and India. He initially studied physics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, before transferring to Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. There he received a B.A. in Creative Writing with a minor in English Literature. Tenzin's essays explore the parallels between modern physics and Buddhism, his fiction the trauma of exile, the legacy of genocide, and the wisdom in compassion. His writings have appeared in Perceptions, Catch, Quiver, and Applied Physics Letters. He is an M.F.A candidate in Creative Writing-Prose at the University of Washington – Seattle.