Tenney Nathanson
| Name: | Tenney Nathanson | |
| Dharma Name: | Intimate : Ocean | |
| Title: | Roshi | |
| Preferred Name: | Tenney | |
| Organization: | Desert Rain Zen | |
| Lineage: | Open Source of the Pacific Zen School |
Tenney is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson. His academic field is American poetry, and he's a poet as well as a scholar. Tenney also co-founded and continues to be a member of the Tucson poetry and arts collective POG.
Tenney grew up in New York (the Bronx and Manhattan) but has lived with his family in Tucson since 1985.