Paul Barach is a stand up comedian and writer who has performed in top venues all over the West Coast, including Seattle's Comedy Underground, Portland's Bagdad Theater, and Rooster T Feathers in San Francisco. Graduating with a BA from Carleton College in Minnesota, Paul Barach has earned his Black Belt in Kyokushin Karate, taught English in South Korea, undertaken the Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan, and most recently bicycled across the United States. A frequent contributor to the Moth Storyslams, he’s currently completed his first travel memoir “Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains: Misadventures on a Japanese Pilgrimage.”