Adam Byrn Tritt

Adam Byrn Tritt is an international bestselling and award winning poet, essayist, screenwriter, teacher, social activist, and humorist. Tritt is the author of Songs from the Well, The Phoenix and the Dragon: Poems of the Alchemical Trans­form­ation, several works of nonfiction, Tellstones: Runic Divination in the Welsh Tradition, the delightful (and slightly disturbing) Bud the Spud, and his newest book, Yom Kippur as Manifest in an Approaching Dorsal Fin, which has been lauded by both literary and scholarly sources. Adam won the 2006 EPPIE Award for Poetry in an Anthology, and his first children's book, Bud the Spud, won the P&E Award for best Children's Book of 2012. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his work in religious tolerance and for the creation of TurningPoint, a nonprofit program providing alternative medicine to low-income individuals. He continued that passion in the healthcare clinic he and his wife, Lee, dreamed of and created together--the Wellness Center. He currently teaches Composition and Rhetoric in high school at college. He is equally at home speaking in lecture halls, giving public readings in bookstores, and visiting elementary school classrooms, where he can be found surrounded by children begging him to read Bud the Spud just one more time (while their parents and teachers beg him to stop). Adam lives, writes, and teaches--often simultaneously--in Palm Bay, Florida, with a dingo, and a ridiculously large alligator, all under a very big tree. You can find his stimulating blog--mostly essays, creative non-fiction, and poetry.