Randy Rosenthal is the author of The Orient Express, Dear Burma, and The Messiah of Shangri-La. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Globe, The Jerusalem Post, The American Scholar, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Lion's Roar, Buddhadharma, and other publications. He teaches writing courses for Harvard University and lives in Boston.