writers such as Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, and Joseph Conrad. In the writing department, he taught aesthetics and creative process. Shortly before retiring from teaching in 2012, Briggs helped to found the Center for Compassion, Creativity and Innovation at WestConn. Briggs is a former fellow at The Black Earth Institute, a member of the Society for Consciousness Studies, and of the Contemplative Alliance, an offshoot of the Global Peace Initiative of Women. Briggs began his professional career as a writer after three years of high school, working as a news reporter for The Tarrytown Daily News, and later the Hartford Courant, as a police reporter during the 1967 riots in Hartford. In 1972 he co-authored the textbook, The Logic of Poetry, published by McGraw-Hill. Briggs spent the 1970s and 1980s in the orbit of David Shainberg, psychiatrist and painter, the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, and physicist David Bohm. Briggs’ first popular science book, Looking Glass Universe (Simon & Schuster, 1986) was co-authored with F. David Peat, Bohm’s later biographer. During the period from 1972–1977, Briggs was the managing editor of New York Quarterly and co-host of the weekly WNYC-FM radio program "The Logic of Poetry." Briggs is a fine art photographer—a student of Paul Caponigro—and a published fiction writer and poet. He is the current publisher of Between Lines Books & Arts. Books Curtains, Windows on the Unreality We Live In. Photographs. Between Lines Books & Arts, 2015. Compassion and Creativity: How They Go Together. Editor. Karuna Publications, 2012. Trickster Tales: Unrealist Fictions. Between Lines Books & Arts, 2015. Originally published by Fine Tooth Press in 2005. Entangled Landscapes: Stories and Poems About the Mind in Nature. With poet James R. Scrimgeour. Pudding House, 2003. Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom From the Science of Change. With F. David Peat. HarperCollins, 1999. German, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish editions. Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos. A new aesthetic of art, science and nature. Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1992. Selected, Quality Paperback Book Club, McGraw-Hill Book Club. German, Italian and UK editions. Metaphor, the Logic of Poetry. With Richard Monaco. Pace Univ. Press, 1991. Originally The Logic of Poetry, published by McGraw-Hill as a textbook in 1974. Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness. With F. David Peat. Harper & Row, 1989. French, German, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Greek, Chinese (separate