Roger Housden is the author of some twenty books, including the best-selling Ten Poems Series. He also runs periodic classes on Spiritual Memoir in the Bay Area.

All his books, whatever the subject – poetry, art, a journey through Iran or India – share a common aim: to inspire himself and others to question the way we live, encouraging us, before we die, to live into the best that we are. His book on Iran, Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran, will be published on May 17, 2011 by Broadway Books.