Archives: Authors

S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate

S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate is executive director of the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life and a professor of religious studies at Hamilton College.

Kevin Griffin

Kevin Griffin is the author of One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps. He is a co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network.

Chris Rainier is a documentary photographer and National Geographic explorer who’s highly respected for his documentation of endangered cultures and traditional languages around the globe. He’s a fellow at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Emily France

Emily France's debut adult novel, Daughter Dalloway, is a retelling of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Her books for young adults include Zen and Gone.

Charles Johnson

Author, scholar, and political cartoonist Charles Johnson won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Middle Passage. He’s coauthor of the new graphic novel The Eightfold Path.

Shyam Selvadurai

Shyam Selvadurai’s new novel, Mansions of the Moon, is a historical novel about the Buddha’s wife, Yasodhara.

Lauren Shufran

Lauren Shufran is the author of The Buddha and the Bard: Where Shakespeare’s Stage Meets Buddhist Scriptures.

Joan Stamm

Joan D. Stamm is the author of The Language of Flowers in the Time of Covid: Finding Solace in Zen, Nature, and Ikebana. She’s a certified teacher in the Saga School of Ikebana.

Atia Sattar

Atia Sattar is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Writing at the University of Southern California. She has been practicing Buddhism for nine years and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two daughters, cat and dog.

Kimmen Sjolander

Kimmen Sjölander is a genome scientist, evolutionary biologist, and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. She has three children and lives with her husband in Amsterdam.

Sandra Gonzalez

Sandra was born in Nicaragua and has lived in the United States since 1980. Since 1988, Sandra has focused on meditative work based on the practice of understanding and exploring our true essence through direct observation from the here and now, moment by moment, which is practiced at the Springwater Center in New York. In 2003, Toni Packer named Sandra as one of the people in charge of continuing the work of "Meditative Inquiry", leading retreats and workshops at Springwater Center, in California, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua during the winter. For more information visit <a href="http://www.springwatercenter.org">www.springwatercenter.org</a>

Keturah Kendrick

A Nichiren Buddhist and member of the Soka Gakkai International, Keturah Kendrick chants nam-myoho-renge-kyo as a core part of her practice. She is an award winning author and freelance writer who currently resides in New York City.

Lorena Saavedra Smith

Lorena Saavedra Smith has been sharing therapeutic applications and her commitment to holistic and integrated health in English and Spanish for nearly twenty years. She’s a certified Holistic Coach, Yoga Therapist, Mindfulness Guide and Eco-Somatic Specialist. With Andean roots, she is a keeper of the Peruvian Ancient Medicine Wisdom and as an expert in trauma-informed and grief care and mental health advocate, she mentors and supports others' paths, especially those recovering from traumatic events associated with acculturation and immigration journeys.

Eric Wilson

Eric G. Wilson is the author of How to Be Weird: An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life and many other books, including Against Happiness, Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, and Keep It Fake. He teaches creative writing at Wake Forest University.

Tanny Jiraprapasuke

Tanny Jiraprapasuke is a second-generation Thai-American and holds a BA in Religious Studies from the University of California, Riverside, and an MTS in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. She is a storyteller and development associate for Thai Community Development Center in Los Angeles.

Jury Candelario

Jury Candelario is a Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Nichiren Buddhist practitioner. He is a licensed clinical social worker in Los Angeles and currently a doctoral student of public health at Johns Hopkins University.

Victoria Mausisa

Victoria Mausisa, a dedicated practitioner, is ordained in the Order of Interbeing in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. A contemplative at heart with a passion for healing communities of color, she enjoys cultivating sangha, and is co-founder of ARISE Sangha, Awakening Through Race, Intersectionality, and Social Equity.

Jen Racho

Jen Racho lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her wife and puppy. She leads meditation groups through Common Ground Meditation Center and Clouds in Water Zen Center.

Karl Palma

Karl Palma is the resident caretaker of New York Buddhist church since 2011. He’s also been running his own Takoyaki business called KARLSBALLS Takoyaki since 2015.

Brian Joshin Byrnes

Brian Joshin Byrnes is a Zen priest and teacher in the White Plum Lineage and Zen Peacemakers, is the founder of the Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in Vermont. His practice, which is informed by his long experience working in social nonprofits, specifically in HIV/AIDS and community-based philanthropy, is centered around social action, with a focus on economically marginalized communities.