Dhivan Thomas Jones has been writing seriously since 1996. He has had poems published in several magazines and anthologies, and had a short story read out on Radio 4. His first novel Green Eros was published in 2008 by Apus Press. Recently he's been studying Sanskrit and Pali, as part of his studies of early Buddhism, and attempting some translation work. He is also involved with editing Urthona, the magazine of Buddhism and the arts. He lives in Bristol, UK, and was given the name Dhivan when he was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order in 2004.