David Need is a writer and university instructor living with wife and four cats in Durham, NC. His son is off to college. He has previously lived in Cleveland, Boston, Northampton MA, and Charlottesville. His poetry is largely unpublished save in small numbers of hand-made books, but he has read publicly since the late seventies. His reviews have appeared in Oyster Boy and the Independent Weekly. He was recently identified as a future North Carolina Poet of the Week. He teaches Asian religions—Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist Ethics, Indian Theism, South and Central Asian religions, as well as courses on the Beat Generation writers, the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick, and Religion and Film.