David Whyte

David Whyte was born in 1955 in Mirfield, Yorkshire. In 1981, he moved to the United States and began his career as a poet and speaker in 1986. He studied Marine Zoology at Bangor University. He leads the Many Rivers organization and Invitas (Institute for Conversational Leadership), which he founded in 2014. He has written nine books of poetry and four works of prose, and has contributed articles to several newspapers and websites, including the Huffington Post and the Observer. He currently resides in Langley, in the Pacific Northwest.