Ashley Curtis was born in California, USA in 1959. He studied Chinese and biblical literature at Yale and physics and physics pedagogy at Smith College. He taught at the Ecole d’Humanité in Hasliberg, Switzerland for many years, where he served as co-director from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Error and Loss: A License to Enchantment (2017), The Soul in the Stone - Why the Worldview That Will Save Our Planet Is More Credible Than the One That Is Destroying It (2023) and the mystery novel Hexeneinmaleins (2019), all published by Kommode Verlag, and the cultural history “O Switzerland!” (Bergli). Ashley Curtis lives just outside the Val Grande National Park in northern Italy.