Archives: Authors
Paul Garrigan
For more from Paul Garrigan, including information about his book, <a href="http://paulgarrigan.com/dead-drunk/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dead Drunk</a> – a memoir of his time at Thamkrabok and the story of how he ended up there, visit him <a href="http://paulgarrigan.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">on the web</a>.
Russell Delman
Russell Delman, founder of <a href="http://www.russelldelman.com/" rel="noopener">The Embodied Life</a>™ School has been practicing Zen and studying somatic psychology since 1970. "The Embodied Life"™ focuses on the deep integration of meditation, movement, and inner inquiry.
Doug Shear
Doug Shear is a writer, playwright and stand-up comedian. He is author of the memoir: American Karma - Twilight of the Marijuana Gods, the novel Rhubarb Culture, and the recently performed play Saint Peter at the Gate. He has been interested in Buddhist philosophy all his life, but has no real hope of achieving enlightenment. His website is http://dougshear.net. Anyone is welcome to email him at dougshearaol.com.
Suzi Wizowaty
Suzi Wizowaty lives in Burlington, Vermont, with her partner of thirty years, a cat and a dog. She writes novels for adults and children and teaches part-time at St. Michael's College and at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt. She also leads book discussions for the Vermont Humanities Council in public libraries, hospitals, prisons—wherever readers assemble to talk about books and ideas. In 2008, she was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives.
Jerry Kolber
Jerry Kolber has been writing, producing and directing television, film, and theater in NYC since 1989. He lives on the Lower East Side and has been meditating since he joined the IDP in 2007. His site is at <a href="http://www.jerrykolber.com/" rel="noopener">www.JerryKolber.com </a>and he is also the author of <a href="http://www.threedollardinner.com./" rel="noopener">www.ThreeDollarDinner.com</a>. He also writes for the IDP's blog, One City. Click <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/onecity/author/jerry-kolber-1/2009/07/index.html" rel="noopener">here</a> to read his posts, including his latest, "Top 10 Reasons to Start Meditating Today."
Marianne Elliott
After a decade working as a human rights advocate in New Zealand, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip and Timor-Leste, Marianne returned to New Zealand in 2008 to write down some of the extraordinary stories she had gathered along the way. Today she divides her time between writing, working as a policy advisor and advocate for Oxfam (a not-for-profit international development agency dedicated to finding lasting solutions to poverty and injustice) meditating and teaching yoga. Her current writing project is a memoir about her life and work in Afghanistan. You can read more about her experiences at "Zen and the Art of Peacekeeping," <a href="http://www.zenpeacekeeping.typepad.com" rel="noopener">www.zenpeacekeeping.typepad.com</a>
Mark Frank
Mark Frank is a writer, translator, and farmer living in the Missouri Ozarks with his wife and two young children.
Donnell King
Donnell King is associate professor of communication studies at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Jaed Muncharoen Coffin
At the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin left New England’s Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s native Thai village. His debut book </em>A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants<em> (<a href="http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0306815265">Da Capo Press</a>, 2009) chronicles his time at the temple. Coffin holds an M.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Writing Program.
Anna Narvid
Anna Narvid writes on matters of physical and emotional health for Examiner.com.
Patty Winter
Patty Winter is a Zen practitioner living in Ashland. Oregon. She teaches and works as an R.N., End-of-Life Care Practitioner and as an Executive Assistant at the Metta Institute of Spirituality in Dying.
Molly McCahan
Molly McCahan is a San Francisco-based freelance writer, travel nut, and Vipassana practitioner. She’s currently working with her husband on a book proposal about their adventures abroad.