Irving Karchmar is a writer, editor, and poet living near New York City. He is also the author of Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel and the novella, Puerto Diablo: A Tale of Good and Evil.
Jim Kosinski, a long time photographer and educator, has illustrated numerous works of spiritual poetry and prose from many traditions. A traveler on the Sufi path, he lives on the coast of Maine, where many images in this book were created.