Archives: Authors
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>
Charles Cameron
Charles Cameron is a poet, independent scholar, bead game designer, blogger of religious violence and apocalyptic at <a href="http://zenpundit.com/" rel="noopener">Zenpundit</a>, vagabond monk, sitter with koans, hotel hermit.
Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik
Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik is a Dharma heir of James Ishmael Ford, Roshi, and serves Great Heartland Buddhist Temple of Toledo, a Boundless Way Zen affiliate. For more from him, visit him online at <a href="http://www.jayrinsenweik.com/home.cfm" rel="noopener">www.JayRinsenWeik.com</a>.
Jim T. Lindsey
Jim T. Lindsey is a healthy sixty-year-old citizen of Canada and the United States. His book Rowga: The Yoga of Rowing, will be published by Arcadia House of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is available to travel and teach rowga.
Suzanne Harvey
Suzanne Harvey lives in southern New Hampshire with her husband. She is a student of Lama Willa Miller, the founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship and spiritual director of Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH.
Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald
Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald is the author of <a href="http://www.ftpress.com/store/pictures-of-the-mind-what-the-new-neuroscience-tells-9780137155163" rel="noopener"><em>Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are</em></a>, which connects new brain imaging research to the Buddhist concept of no-self. She co-leads a Vipassana sitting group with her husband in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she is working on a collection of stories about her less-than-perfect attempts to learn the dharma from her two strictest (and sweetest) mindfulness teachers, her sons.
J. Jason Graff
J. Jason Graff has been practicing vipassana meditation for 11 years. He's the author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spectrum-Light-Collection-Stories-ebook/dp/B0012S9WA8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1363277510&sr=1-1" rel="noopener">Spectrum Light</a></em>, a collection of short stories.
Lorenn Walker
Lorenn Walker, JD, MPH, is a Hawai'i-based public health educator who focuses on building peace and increasing individual and organizational performance. She received the 2011 John Byrd Pioneer Award for Restorative and Community Justice from the National Conference on Restorative Justice. She has meditated for over thirty years.
Jerry Braza
Jerry Braza, Ph.D., is the author of <a href="http://www.theseedsoflove.net/" rel="noopener">The Seeds of Love: Growing Mindful Relationships</a>, published by Tuttle Publishing -- which includes a foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh, in whose lineage Jerry serves as a teacher.
Richard Schiffman
Richard Schiffman is a poet, an environmental journalist, and the author of two spiritual biographies who is based in New York City. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian, among other outlets.
Alixa Doom
Alixa Doom also writes poetry, and her chapbook, <i>Cedar Crossings<i>, was awarded the Blue Light Poetry Prize and published in the spring of 2010. She has completed two book manuscripts, one of poems and one a memoir. After retirement from her work at the hospital, she moved from her home of many years in the Minnesota River Valley to South Minneapolis, where she is a member of Common Ground Meditation Center.
Scott Lillico
Scott Lillico is a writer, photographer and videographer. After spending a year abroad in India, Southeast Asia and Europe, Scott continues his journey as a writer in Canada.
Christa Joy
<a href="https://christajoymusic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christa Joy</a> is a singer-songwriter and elementary school teacher. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her partner, Jeremy, and mutt dog, Jack.
Kieran Cunningham
Describing himself, Kieran Cunningham writes: "I’m a thirty-one year old forester based in the Scottish Highlands. I have been a Buddhist practitioner on and off since the age of fifteen and studied for a PhD in Philosophy (on Nagarjuna’s 'Writings on the Middle Way') at the University of Lisbon but didn’t make the transition to a more pragmatic and experiential approach to practice until more recently."