Archives: Authors

Rebecca Solnit

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of books on feminism, Western and Indigenous history, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster.

Sophia Kamps is a summer intern for LionsRoar.com and a student of art history and political science at McGill University. During the school year she is a staff writer at the McGill Journal of Political Studies and the McGill International Review.

Alexander Weinstein

Alexander Weinstein is the director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and author of the short story collection Children of the New World.

Finn Enke

Finn Enke is a professor and the author of "Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism" (Duke University Press).

Cameron Conaway

<a href="https://cameronconaway.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cameron Conaway's</a> life was forever changed for the better thanks to a 2013 "Happy Teachers Change the World" retreat in Thailand with Thich Nhat Hanh. Today, he is a mindfulness-practicing business school professor fascinated by the intersection of business, ethics, and society — and by how effective workplace feedback, or what he calls employee feedback literacy, drives improvement in every field.

John Harvey Negru

John Harvey Negru (Karma Yönten Gyatso) is founder and president at <a href="http://sumeru-books.com">The Sumeru Press</a>, Canada’s leading independent Buddhist book publisher. He also manages <a href="http://www.canadianbuddhism.info">canadianbuddhism.info</a>, a directory of more than 600 Canadian Buddhist organizations, and has been involved in a wide variety of Buddhist community development projects over the years.

Richard Davidson

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has pioneered the study of how meditation practices affect the brain. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Hondo Lobley

Hondo Lobley grew up in Northern California, currently lives in the East Bay and practices in the Jodo Shinshu tradition of his family. His grandparents and great grandparents maintained their practice through their incarceration at Amache during WWII. Hondo likes cats and martial arts.

Debra Flics

Debra Flics is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She teaches at Downtown New York Meditation Community and has served on the Teachers Council at New York Insight Meditation Center.

Jeff Bridges

Although many people think he is The Dude, Jeff Bridges is actually a multitalented actor, singer, photographer, and activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for Crazy Heart. Read Andrea Miller's Lion's Roar magazine feature about Bridges and his friendship with Zen teacher Bernie Glassman, "<a href="https://www.lionsroar.com/the-dude-and-the-zen-master-may-2013/">The Dude and the Zen Master</a>."

Eli Brown-Stevenson

Eli Brown-Stevenson is the director of work practice at San Francisco Zen Center.

Allen Weiss

Allen Weiss is director of Mindful USC at the University of Southern California and a senior teacher at InsightLA.

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde

Kakumyo Lowe-charde is co-abbot of Dharma Rain Zen Center.

Ayya Yeshe

Ayya Yeshe is a Mahayana nun and head of Bodhicitta Dakini Monastery in Australia and Bodhicitta Foundation, which serves the poor in the slums of central India.

Michel Bitbol

Michel Bitbol is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He holds a medical degree, a doctorate in physics, and an Habilitation in philosophy. After his start in physics, he turned to philosophy, editing texts by Erwin Schrödinger and formulating a neo-Kantian philosophy of quantum mechanics. His work, done in collaboration with Francisco Varela, has drawn a parallel between Buddhist dependent arising and nonsupervenient relations in quantum physics.

Sara Lewis

Sara Lewis brings her training as both a psychotherapist and an anthropologist of religion and medicine to Naropa University, where she teaches contemplative psychotherapy and Buddhist psychology. Her work (including her book Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism, which will be published next year), explores “how individuals and communities cope with the vicissitudes of life — not in spite of suffering, but through it, and because of it.”

Ann Gleig

Ann Gleig is an associate professor of religion and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity and editor, with Scott Mitchell, of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism. She is collaborating with Amy Langenberg on Abuse, Sex, and the Sangha, a book-length study of sexual abuse in American convert Buddhism, to be published by Yale University Press.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American writer, known for fantasy and science fiction.

Khin Mai Aung

Khin Mai Aung has written numerous pieces in Lion’s Roar and other publications about civil rights in Myanmar, and has practiced American civil rights, immigrant rights, and education law for more than 20 years.

Ram Dass

Born Richard Alpert, Ram Dass is the founder of the Love Serve Remember Project and co-founder of the Seva Foundation and the Prison Ashram Project. He is the author of the worldwide spiritual classic Be Here Now (Crown, 1971), and many other books. His most recent book is Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart (Sounds True, 2013/2014). Visit ramdass.org