NEWS  

Ken's story, "Jesus Says You're Gonna Die, Charlie," won second place in the 2008 Oregon Writers Colony competition--and his poem, "Tree of Heaven" received an honorable mention in the same competition. Click on the story and poem in the sidebar to read them.

Circle of the Way, my latest book, is a Finalist in the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Order it directly from Amazon.com.

 

BIOGRAPHY 

Ken Arnold is the founder and publisher of KenArnoldBooks, LLC, and the social network site for authors, publishers, and readers, Buzzaroonie.com. A deacon in the Episcopal Church (retired), playwright, poet, and author of books in religion who has worked as a publisher for the past forty years, he lives and works in Portland, Oregon.  

Most recently, Ken was publisher for the Episcopal Church publishing company, Church Publishing Incorporated, including the Seabury, Morehouse, Living the Good News, and Church Publishing imprints. He has also worked as an editor and publisher in the university press world and was a partner in a web-publishing firm, Pubcomm, in the late 1990s.  

He is also a member of the board of Friends of Ooligan Press at Portland State University and Vice President of the Publishers Association of the West.

In 1979 Ken was a fellow at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Confernce, where he developed She Also Dances, a play that premiered at South Coast Repertory Theatre, in Costa Mesa, California, in 1983. It was cited in Best Plays of 1983. Other plays include: The House of Bedlam, Wanting Marie, Rapture, and Enlightenment (a play about the priest and monk Thomas Merton still looking for a producer). He has published poems in numerous national magazines.

His two previous books are On the Way: Vocation, Awareness, and Fly Fishing, and Night Fishing in Galilee: The Journey Toward Spiritual Wisdom. These books are not about fishing or how to fish, although Ken is a fly fisher when he can get away to a stream. 

He studies the Japanese traditional bamboo flute, the Shakuhachi, which he plays as part of a Zen meditation practice. (See me above photoshoped into Koshoji temple in Uji, Japan; been there, just haven't played there). His teacher is the shakuhachi Grand Master, Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin. 

Married to Connie Kirk, he lives in Portland, Oregon. He has two adult children, Nicholas and Ruth.

Contact Ken Arnold at ken@ken-arnold.com