Archives: Authors

Kem McIntosh Lee

Kem McIntosh Lee lives in Atlanta and is a photographer, yoga instructor, and jewelry designer.

Bill Aiken is a member of Soka Gakkai International–USA and served as its director of public affairs from 1998 to 2016. He currently serves as board president of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington.

Brad Stulberg

Brad Stulberg is the author of The Passion Paradox and Peak Performance. In his coaching practice, he works with executives, entrepreneurs, and athletes on their mental skills and overall well-being.

Hersch Wilson

Hersch Wilson and his wife Laurie became volunteer firefighters in 1986. He writes for Backdraft magazine and other publications.

Nuanprang Snitbhan

Nuanprang Snitbhan is a child psychologist, mother, and the author of Girl Time: A Mother-Daughter Activity Book for Sharing, Bonding, and Really Talking.

Devon Hase

Devon Hase teaches meditation on retreat teams at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, and throughout North America and Europe. She supports practitioners with online personal dharma mentoring, is a mentor in Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certifcation Program, and teaches on the Ten Percent Happier and Simple Habit apps. Along with her life partner Craig Hase, Devon co-authored their first book, How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Survival Guide for Modern Life. Devon has spent years in meditation retreat in the Insight and Vajrayana traditions, and now lives together with Craig in urban retreat in her hometown of Ashland, Oregon, splitting each week between teaching and practice. For more info visit www.devonandcraighase.com.

Craig Hase

Craig Hase mentors dharma practitioners online, leads meditation retreats throughout North America and Europe, and teaches meditation on the Simple Habit app. Over the years, Craig has studied the teachings and practices of three different lineages – Insight, Zen and Vajrayana. He spent six years in a Zen monastery and completed a PhD in counseling psychology before making his topsy-turvy transition into teaching mindfulness, meditation, and dharma full time. These days he lives with his partner Devon in urban retreat in Ashland, Oregon, splitting each week between teaching and practice. Also, he co-wrote this crazy book with Devon called How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Survival Guide for Modern Life, which offers six really good pieces of semi-Buddhist advice to keep you anchored and steady amidst the chaos of modern life. To learn more, visit www.devonandcraighase.com.

Yenkuei Chuang

Yenkuei Chuang, PhD, is a therapist and mindfulness instructor. She is currently writing a memoir entitled Blood, Sweat, and Dharma: A Memoir on Learning to Stay.

Bill Gaston

Bill Gaston’s latest book is Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood (Penguin, 2019). He lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia.

Furyu Nancy Schroeder

Furyu Nancy Schroeder is the abiding abbess at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, a residential practice center and organic farm in the San Francisco Zen Center community.

Shauna Shapiro

Shauna Shapiro, PhD, is a professor at Santa Clara University. Her most recent book is Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy.

Camille Hamilton Pating

Camille Hamilton Pating is a Dharma School teacher and certified assistant at the Buddhist Church of San Francisco.

Sean Feit Oakes

Sean Feit Oakes, PhD explores the integration of Buddhist philosophy and practice, trauma resolution, and social justice. He teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and online. <a href="http://www.seanfeitoakes.com" rel="noopener">SeanFeitOakes.com</a>

Renshin Bunce

Renshin Bunce is a Zen priest in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Her forthcoming book is Love and Fear: Stories from a Decade as a Hospice Chaplain.

Annaka Gale

Annaka Gale is the Editorial Assistant for Lion's Roar magazine and a freelance culture writer.

Sister Annabel Laity

Sister Annabel Laity was the first Western woman to be ordained as a nun by Thich Nhat Hanh. She is the author of True Virtue: The Journey of an English Buddhist Nun.

Sister Clear Grace

Sister Clear Grace received novice ordination in 2018 as Sister True Moon of Clear Grace in the Plum Village Vietnamese Zen tradition headed by the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2020, she received higher ordination and carries forward both the Theravada and Mahayana lineages of her preceptor, Venerable Dr. Pannavati Karuna, of whom she was transmitted the name Dayananda. Formerly a successful executive managing corporate operations, key people training and systems development, she now manages her mobile monastery operations and TravelingNunk.org as she continues to provide spiritual guidance and training to lay persons and monastics in her travels across the country.

Oren Jay Sofer

Oren Jay Sofer is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and author of Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.

Ayesha Ali

Ayesha Ali is a lesbian, femme, crone, mother, teacher, and writer. She is the co-founder of the Heart Refuge Community for People of Color. All of the descriptors are centered around her deepest intention to be free through to practices of the wisdom of the dharma and her ancestors.

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu received a doctorate in psychology from Harvard University and trained in traditional medicine in Japan. He designs "heartfulness" learning programs at Stanford University and is the author of eleven books in English and Japanese.