About Q
Qutbuddin Loren Ruh Smith is a Poet and Gardener who first began writing poetry when working in the worlds of aerospace and computer sciences. He has always been close to Nature, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest on the Olympic Peninsula and living in the Foothills of the Sierra Nevada for the last 27 years.
His spiritual path took him from Lutheran Sunday School and a Catholic School in the 4 & 5th grades to a study of world religions. This Universalist perspective deepened in the later years, eventually leading to Sufism. For the last 30 years, he has been a student of Sufism, and has read and studied several of the great Sufi Poets including: Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir and others.