Adam Byrn Tritt

Adam Byrn Tritt , M.Ed., C.H., LMT, (born August 11, 1964, in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA) is an American of mixed Russian and Gallic decent. He is an author, poet, essayist, screenwriter, teacher, shaman, social activist, humorist and a massage therapist currently living in Palm Bay, Florida.
Tritt was born in Brookline, Massachusetts but moved to New Jersey when he was one year old. From there to various other cities in New Jersey, New Mexico, to Charleston, South Carolina, North Carolina, and to various parts of Florida including ten years in Gainesville, Florida. He obtained an AA degree from Miami Dade Community College in 1985 and a B.A. in Psychology from the Florida International University at Miami in 1988. He finished his Masters of Science in Education with specializations in English, Cross-cultural Communications, and TESOL (Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Nova Southeastern University at Ft. Lauderdale in 2000.
Books
*Tritt's first book, Tellstones: Runic Divination in the Welsh Tradition (ISBN 1890109320), explains the usage of what he claims is a modern form of an obscure and ancient Welsh divination method.
*The Phoenix and the Dragon: Poems of the Alchemical Transformation (ISBN 0979393507) is a poetry collection.
Bibliography
;Published Literary Work in English
* The Phoenix & the Dragon: Poems of the Alchemical Transformation (poetry), ISBN 0-9793-9350-7
* Tellstones: Runic Divination in the Welsh Tradition (novel), ISBN 1-8901-0932-0
* Gainesville Community Haggada, Moon Goddess Publishing, 1998 (Co-editor with L. Summer).
* Moon Goddess Publishing, 1998 (nonfiction)
* Tritt’s poetry has appeared in many magazines, as well as the anthologies Poets for Peace ISBN 1-8808-4946-1, She of 10,000 Names, Connections, Deliver Us From Evil and The Oestara Anthology of Pagan Poetry
* GlassFire Anthology
;Short Story Publications:
* “Ezekiel’s Wheels” CrossTIME. Ed. T. Francis. Santa Fe, NM: Crossquarter Publishing Group, 2002 CrossTIME Science Fiction Anthology, Vol. I, ed. Anon., CrossTIME 2002
* “Sara” Mighty Natural Vol. 6 # 1 (1989): 49-50.
;Poetry Publications:
* “Boone Tavern Hotel” The Cover Vol. I, 2005
* “But the Sun of Man or Respite” Connections Vol. III (1998): 48.
* “Chant” Circle Magazine Vol. IV (2004): Inside Front Cover.
* “Cleaning Up” The Cover Vol. I, 2005
* “Dance” Connections Vol. III (1998): 2-3.
* “Dance” The Oestara Anthology of Poetry, Oestara Publishing LLC, 2005
* “Gabriel Erector” The Cover Vol. I, 2005
* “Hogtowne Creek” The Oestara Anthology of Poetry, Oestara Publishing LLC, 2005
* “I Met Yoko Ono” The Cover Vol. I, 2005
* “In the Cold” Poets for Peace. Ed. T. Crowley. Chapel Hill, NC: Chapel Hill Press, 2002
* “Pits” The Cover Vol. I, 2005
* “Preparing a Meal” The Cover Vol. I, 2005
* “Recognizing Kali in a Young Girl” The Oestara Anthology of Poetry, Oestara Publishing LLC, 2005
* “Recognizing Kali in a Young Girl” Yet Another Small Magazine Vol. 11 (1999): 14.
* “Sh’Kena” She of Ten Thousand Names. Ed. N. Bennett. Victoria, BC: Spiral, 2000. 16.
* “Skeleton Dance” The Oestara Anthology of Poetry, Oestara Publishing LLC, 2005
* “Spring” Connections Vol. III (1998): 63.
* “Stone Circle” The Oestara Anthology of Poetry, Oestara Publishing LLC, 2005
* “When Tibetan Monks take it Easy” The Cover Vol. I, 2005
;Essay Publications:
* “Come Dancing” Earth First Journal Vol. 8 IV (1987): 15-16.
* “First Amendment Rights and Minority Religions: Sunday Afternoon at The Kosher Butcher” Touchstone Vol. 10 # 8 (1999): 12-13.
* “One Lost Child” Mighty Natural Vol. 5 # 6 (1988): 36-39.
;Stage Publications:
* “Scheherazade and the 1000 Arabian Nights” First produced June 2006, Henegar Center Theater, Melbourne, Florida
;Acting:
* “Ill Service" (2007).
;Social Activist:
* “34th Street Wall in Gainesville" "One night - Sept. 3, 1990, the wee hours of a Monday morning - Adam Tritt and some friends rode out to the wall on a Honda scooter with a broken seat. They used $11 worth of paint in the cheapest colors they could buy - black, white, red - and painted the names of the victims of the most brutal murders in Gainesville's history" (2007).
Awards
;Awards include:
* 1999 Book Club of South Florida Poetry Prize
* 2006 EPPIE Award for Poetry in an Anthology

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