Gary Gregory Gach (born 1947)[1] is an American author, translator, editor, and teacher living in San Francisco.

He has hosted Zen Mindfulness Fellowship weekly for 12 years, and he swims in the San Francisco Bay.

His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuddhaDharma, Coyote’s Journal, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Hambone, In These Times, Lilipoh, Mānoa, The Nation, The New Yorker, Words without Borders, Yoga Journal, and Zyzzyva.

[3] At 11, he read The Way of Zen by Alan Watts, beginning a lifelong interest in Buddhism.

He took transmission in the Plum Village Tradition, and is lay ordained in its core community the Order of Interbeing/ He has worked as an actor, stevedore, typographer, legal secretary, editor-in-chief, webmaster, and teacher.