Archives: Authors
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.
Willis Barnstone
Willis Barnstone’s many books include <i>The Restored New Testament, The Gnostic Bible</i>, and the volume of poetry <i>Moonbook and Sunbook</i>. He lives in Oakland, California.
Janice Lynne Lundy
Janice Lynne Lundy is a long-term student of mindfulness and Metta who sources her life, writing, and teaching in the practice of compassion. She is an Interfaith Spiritual Director/Mentor and the author of several books including, <em>The Mindful Mommy's Back-to-School Survival Guide. </em>She is also the founder and editor of the online magazine/community, "Meditate Like A Girl." You can connect with Jan via her website: <a href="http://www.JanLundy.com" rel="noopener">www.JanLundy.com</a>