Moses Ludel grew up at rural Carson Valley, Nevada, graduating high school and coming of draft age in 1967. He is a University of Oregon graduate and successful photojournalist, columnist and author for over two decades. Moses has written and illustrated eight non-fiction books. His teaching experience includes five years (1999-2004) as a vocational instructor, the principal and vocational director at Rite of Passage Charter High School. Here, staff and coaches worked effectively with tough, at-risk male youth who were often former gang members. A practitioner of Vipassana and Zen Buddhist meditation, Moses volunteered his lunch breaks to a sitting meditation group for these students. Happily married for 30 years, Moses and his wife, Donna, have four grown children who also practice mindfulness. Indra's Net is his first novel.