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Peter Lamborn Wilson (b. 1945) traveled extensively in North Africa, India and Asia, and settled in Iran

for nearly seven years, undertaking voluminous reading of Islamic heretical texts and studying the historical and mystical dimensions of Sufism with some of the century’s great Sufi masters. He returned

to the United States in the 1980s and began a series of radio broadcasts known as the 'Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade' on WBAI-FM in New York. He was a member of the Autonomedia publishing collective,

and author of dozens of books of poetry, literary and cultural criticism, and numerous studies of the history of religions. His visual art has been exhibited widely, including the 2019 Venice Biennale. On the internet, his poetry is extensively featured on PennSound (The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing),

and his lectures on the Naropa University Audio Archive. In 2000 he moved from New York City to the Catskill Mountains in New York. He died in Saugerties, NY in 2022.