Yom Kippur as Manifest in an Approaching Dorsal Fin (13 page)

About the Author

A
dam Byrn Tritt
, MEd, CH,

LMT, is an internationally bestsell-

ing author, poet, essayist, screen-

writer, teacher, social activist, and humorist.

In 2012 his hilarious children’s book,
Bud the
Spud
, was published by Axios Press. In addi-tion to
Yom Kippur as Manifest in an Approaching Dorsal Fin,
Tritt is the author of
Songs from
the Well: A Memoir of Love
, the chronicle of his love for his wife, her sudden and heart-breaking loss to brain cancer, and his struggle

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to find a way back to life;
The Phoenix and the
Dragon: Poems of the Alchemical Transformation
, a collection of his poetry; as well as several works of nonfiction including the best-

selling
Tellstones: Runic Divination in the Welsh
Tradition.

Tritt won the 2006 EPPIE Award for

Poetry in an Anthology. In 1995 he was

awarded an honorary doctorate for his work

in religious tolerance and for the creation of

TurningPoint, a nonprofit program provid-

ing alternative medicine to low-income indi-

viduals. He continues that passion today in

the healthcare clinic he and his wife, Lee,

dreamed of and created together—the Well-

ness Center.

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 chil-

dren begging him to read
Bud the Spud
just one more time (while their parents and teachers beg him to stop).

Tritt has a bunch of academic degrees, lots

of initials after his name, at one time man-

aged to hold a responsible job teaching your

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children, and lives in Palm Bay, Florida, with

Dusty the dingo dog, and a ridiculously large

alligator, all under a very big tree. His website is AdamTritt.com.

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