Who is Simon Wickham-Smith actually?

Simon Wickham-Smith is a composer of musics acoustic and digital, melodic and non-, noisy and quiet; an academic researching the life of Tsangyang Gyatsho, the Sixth Dalai Lama; a sometime astrologer, with no clients but with case studies aplenty of transgendered people; and a researcher along the highways and multifaceted lowlands of (meta)language and psychoanthropology.
Simon Wickham-Smith is an occasional member of the Helsinki Computer Orchestra.
Simon Wickham-Smith used to be a Buddhist monk in the Karma Kagyü tradition of Tibetan Buddhism -
hence the translation work and the near obsession with the Sixth Dalai Lama
Simon Wickham-Smith was baptised and brought up in the Roman Catholic church and, though somewhat ambiguous in his relationship with this organisation, has nonetheless produced a translation of St Bonaventure's Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, a dense and mystical and challenging exposition of the development of the human mind towards enlightenment and union with God.
Simon Wickham-Smith was born in Rustington, England at 17:55 GMT on Friday, February 2nd 1968. He is largely uncertain as to where he lives and speaks a number of languages with varying degrees of fluency.
Simon Wickham-Smith occasionally designs fonts. He has recently produced two unpointed Hebrew fonts, Beckercocks Pointless and Polansky Cursive, as well as a Roman font, Xaara. See them all in action here.
Simon Wickham-Smith occasionally works for money. Simon Wickham-Smith welcomes communication from all everywhere.