Canyon Sam

Canyon Sam encountered the dharma when she lived in Tibet in 1986, when it first opened.  She helped found the Tibetan Nuns Project in 1987.  A senior student of Thich Nhat Hanh, she is a nationally acclaimed performance artist now studying painting and yoga.  Her creative nonfiction book, Sky Train:  Tibetan Women on the Edge of History (Univ. of Washington Press, 2009, foreword by the Dalai Lama) won the PEN American Center Open Book Award. You can find more about her at www.canyonsam.com