Alex Minchinton is an Arts Honours graduate of La Trobe University, Bendigo. He has recently commenced a doctoral thesis titled ‘A Window to the East – An Australian Poet in Japan: Reflections from the Life and Works of Harold Stewart’. His interests include Buddhist traditions, most notably Dzogchen and Shin, as well an abiding interest in religious architecture and garden symbolism. He currently resides in Bendigo with his wife and two young daughters.

Minchinton's article "The Exiled Immortal" appears in the World Wisdom title, Crossing Religious Frontiers.