Ananda Selah Osel is an avant-garde poet (in content) and polemic writer rooted in Seattle, Washington. His work has appeared in various magazines, newspapers, academic reviews and small press journals. He has also published poetry and essays in Ireland, England, Canada, China and India.

Ananda has done intense studies of Hinayana Buddhism and atheism which have massively influenced his work. His rationalist views are as overwhelmingly evident in his essays and editorials as his affinity for the nihilistic are in his poetry. Ananda is the co-founder of the now defunct Activism for Humanity, and former president of the student groups Moslem Student Movement and the American Black Student Association. Ananda is currently working on his impending opus, 'The Meter is Running & We're Almost Out of Change', available in 2008 from the Proletariat Press.

Currently Ananda is drudging toward a degree in contemplative psychoanalysis. He is the founding co-editor of The CommonLine Project. The Project is based out of Seattle, Washington, and publishes interviews and verse.

"The Author was deeply involved in independent photography for years before he started writing poetry and non-fiction for online magazines. Ananda's autobiographical works of poetry are intensely raw and habitually profane. Often Osel's poems uses exceedingly coarse language and imagery to reach the reader. Ananda writes with little or no "word play" and rarely uses metaphor when addressing his subject. This no-nonsense methodology has made Osel a favorite of the alternative lit press and a monster to those accustomed to the traditional absolutism of the poetry cosmos.

Currently Ananda resides in Seattle, Washington where he is the Editor-In-Chief of The CommonLine Project. He is unmarried and has no children. "

(2007, April) Bang!