Archives: Authors
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>
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.