Archives: Authors
John Genjin Becvar
John Genjin Becvar is a novice priest with Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in Cornwall, Vermont, and a graduate of the Upaya Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program. He lives in Ottawa, Canada with his partner and three sons where he works for the Canadian Mental Health Association and in overdose prevention programs
Ivan Cash
Ivan Cash is an award-winning interactive artist, film director, and founder of Cash Studios. His conceptually-driven, genre-bending media projects spark meaningful conversation and impact culture, having been featured in <em>The New York Times,</em> CNN, <em>TIME,</em> <em>The Guardian,</em> <em>Fast Company</em>, Buzzfeed, <em>The Atlantic</em>, and received multiple Vimeo Staff Picks and Webby Honorees. He has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 artist, an Art Directors Club Young Gun, and a Print New Visual Artist. His work is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and has exhibited internationally, from the Brooklyn Museum to the Australian Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. You can find more about him on <a href="http://www.ivancash.com" rel="noopener">ivancash.com</a>
Nancy Levine
Nancy Levine is an author and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Salon, AlterNet, Rantt Media, and Feminine Collective. She's the author of the four-book series starting with <em>The Tao of Pug</em> (Penguin/Skyhorse).
Andrew Glencross
Andrew Glencross is a musician and the Associate Art Director of <em>Lion 's Roar</em> magazine.
Diana Reynolds Roome
Diana Reynolds Roome, writer and editor, has been a student of the Middle Way ever since first encountering Buddhism in Nepal fifty years ago. Since then she has tried to keep learning and practicing in England, California and Oregon.
Jose Shinzan Palma
José Shinzan Palma is a San Diego-based Zen priest working to foster an Hispanic Zen community in the US and Mexico.
Konda Mason
Konda Mason is a teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and cofounder of Impact Hub Oakland.
Liza Matthews
Liza Matthews is the art director and associate editor of <em>Lion's Roar</em> magazine.
Jennifer Urban-Brown
Jennifer Urban-Brown is an editor at Shambhala Publications/Roost Books. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and Boston Terrier.
Breeze Harper
Breeze Harper is a critical race feminist scholar, vegan activist, and diversity strategist.
Sister True Dedication
Before Sister True Dedication ordained, she worked as a journalist for BBC News in London. She now edits books by Thich Nhat Hanh, including Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet and The Art of Living.
Randy Rosenthal
Randy Rosenthal teaches writing at Harvard University. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, where he focused on Buddhist Studies, and his work has appeared in <em>The New York Times, <em>The Washington Post, <em>The American Scholar,</em> and many other publications.
Alex Rodriguez
Alex W. Rodríguez is a writer, trombonist, and organizer currently serving as General Coordinator for the Bhumisparsha sangha and as Board President for Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, where his research focused on jazz clubs around the world and the communities that sustain them in Los Angeles, California; Santiago, Chile; and Novosibirsk, Siberia.
Ava Coulter
Ava Coulter is a summer editorial assistant at Lion’s Roar and student in the journalism program at the University of King’s College in Halifax. She has also written for <i><a href="https://www.thecoast.ca/">The Coast</a></i> and <i><a href="http://dalgazette.com/">The Dalhousie Gazette</a>.</i> Check her out on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/avacoulter1">@avacoulter1</a>.
Edward Tick
Edward Tick is a writer and psychotherapist specializing in healing war trauma. He is the author of six books, including the award-winning <em>War and the Soul</em> and more than 150 articles. He is recognized as one of the pioneers in treating war trauma and has served as the Pentagon’s subject matter expert on post-traumatic stress disorder and moral injury. He is the director of Soldier’s Heart, Inc., a non-profit addressing PTSD and Moral Injury.
Charlene Leung
Charlene Leung is chair of the Diversity Working Group for Shambhala International and a facilitator for UNtraining, an organization devoted to healing personal and social oppressions. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her Chinese immigrant parents settled, and witnessed firsthand the discrimination and racial violence against Chinese Americans. Of dharma and diversity work, she says, "The two are inextricably linked for me." She practices Chinese medicine as a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist and teaches qigong.