Keith Kachtick grew up in Texas, attended the Iowa Writers Workshop, and now lives in New York City. He is a senior instructor of the Lineage Project, a non-profit, Dharma-based organization that runs meditation classes in youth prisons in Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Bronx. His writing has appeared in a number of publications, including Esquire, The Missouri Review, Texas Monthly, and the New York Times Magazine. Hungry Ghost is his first novel. When he started writing the novel, he vowed it would do three things: illustrate the redemptive power of love, bring to life the everyday operations of spiritual practice, and conclude with the words "I do." The same month he began writing this book, he also started teaching Buddhist meditation classes in youth prisons.

Books by Keith Kachtick

Hungry Ghost: A Novel

by Keith Kachtick