Archives: Authors
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."
Jessica O’Neill
Jessica O’Neill is a writer, traveler, neon sign historian and self-proclaimed ”strange goth lady” who lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. She works for an NGO that helps to reunite trafficked children with their families, and she will begin a Masters of Cultural Heritage Studies in London in the Fall of 2013. Jessica recently spent 6 weeks at Kopan Monastery where she formally took refuge and tried not to listen to punk on her iPod.
Marie Rose White
Marie Rose White grew up Catholic in Detroit, and after college, she left to live and work all over the United States. She's not sure what or where she'll be next year, but right now, she's in Denver.
Meredith Arena
Meredith Arena is a writer, artist, teacher and sometimes performer from New York City, who currently resides in Seattle. She began studying Buddhism at The Interdependence Project in 2008 and completed teacher training there in 2011. She teaches meditation to willing students, sells fruit and vegetable in the Pike Place Market and works with homeless youth in Seattle.
Sarah Lipton
Sarah Lipton is the editor of <em>The Shambhala Times</em>. Currently, she lives at Karme Choling in Barnet, Vermont.
Emily Herzlin
Emily Herzlin is a writer and teacher living in New York City. She teachers a Meditation and Creative Writing class at Columbia University, and her work has been published in USA Today, Newsday, and The Women's International Perspective, among others. Visit Emily at her <a href="http://emilyherzlin.com/">website</a>
Kelly Lawrence
Kelly Lawrence</strong> is a teacher, mother and writer living in the Derbyshire Dales, where the landscape is constantly inspiring her practice. Her first novel, <em>Wicked Games,</em> came out in July 2013, published by Random House. Read more at <a href="http://www.lotuswriter.moonfruit.com/">her blog</a>.
Jessica Bizub
Jessica Bizub is a researcher at a public university and serves as president of a nonprofit organization, Arcos Milwaukee. Jessica practices and studies at the Shambhala Center of Milwaukee.
Samuel Gentoku McCree
Samuel Gentoku McCree is a personal trainer and founder of the <a href="http://www.mindfulfitnessmovement.com/">Mindful Fitness Movement</a>, a mindfulness-based fitness community that supports anyone in using mindfulness and body practice to reduce suffering, grow inside and out, and change their lives for the better. He strives to support others in pursuing a balanced approach to enduring and fundamental transformation.
Kate Menzies
Kate Menzies is a poet and workshop facilitator in the San Francico Bay Area. She has an MFA at Mills College and annually holds a writers' workshop on meditation called 'Undoing Poetry.' Visit Kate online at <a href="http://katemenzies.webs.com/">katemenzies.webs.com</a>.
Sophia Aguiñaga
Sophia Aguiñaga lives in Portland, Oregon, and now works as an editor for a private foundation.