Archives: Authors
Christopher Martin
Christopher Martin is the author of the poetry chapbook <i>A Conference of Birds</i> and founding editor of the online literary magazine <i>Flycatcher</i>.
Tina Welling
Tina Welling is the author of <i>Writing Wild: A Creative Partnership with Nature</i>. She leads writing and journaling workshops wherever invited.
Brenda Feuerstein
Brenda Feuerstein is currently writing a book and developing a workshop series on conscious dying and grief.
Gary Geddes
Gary Geddes has been called Canada’s best political poet. His most recent books are <i>Swimming Ginger</i>, poems set in twelfth-century China, and the nonfiction book <i>Drink the Bitter Root: A search for Justice and Healing in Africa</i>. He lives on Thetis Island, British Columbia.
Donna Johnson
Donna M. Johnson escaped the holy-roller life at the age of seventeen and has spent her time since outrunning the apocalypse. “So far, so good,” she says. She is the author of <i>Holy Ghost Girl</i>, an award-winning memoir acclaimed by The New York Times, O Magazine, and The New York Review of Books. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, the poet and author Kirk Wilson.
Leanora McClellan
Introduced to Buddhism as a student at the University of Vermont, Leanora McLellan has noted a shift in her interest, from the purely academic to the deeply personal. She was especially pleased to complete her first silent meditation retreat in 2012. More recently, Buddhism’s influence has found its way into the creative nonfiction writing McLellan has undertaken as a master of fine arts student at Emerson College. She works in Boston as a writer and yoga teacher.
Margaret Roach
Margaret Roach is the author of The Backyard Parables, as well as And I Shall Have Some Peace There.
Elizabeth Guia
Elizabeth Guia is currently working on <i>Unveilings</i>, a memoir that describes a life-transforming spiritual life experience and the internal journey that it set off. This story is part of that recount. She lives in Miami.
Red Pine
Bill Porter assumes the pen name Red Pine for his translation work. He was born in Los Angeles in 1943, grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, served a tour of duty in the US Army, graduated from the University of California with a degree in anthropology, and attended graduate school at Columbia University before dropping out to move to a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including two NEA translation fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN Translation Prize, and the inaugural Asian Literature Award of the American Literary Translators Association. More recently, Porter received the 2018 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation bestowed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Sara Eckel
Sara Eckel is the author of <i>It's Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You're Single</i> (Perigee, 2014). She lives in Ulster County, New York.
Friederike Boissevain
Friederike Boissevain, MD, works in medical oncology, hematology, and palliative care. A leader of the Wind and Wolken sangha in Germany, she translates the writings of Dogen and Ryokan into German.
Bonnie Ryan-Fisher
Bonnie Ryan-Fisher practices in the Theravada tradition, supported by an affiliation with Light of the Dhamma in Edmonton, Alberta, and the guidance of Ajahn Sona, abbot of Birken Forest Monastery in British Columbia.
Alex Tzelnic
Alex Tzelnic studied Philosophy, Religion, and Asian Studies at Skidmore College. With that degree, he says, he "of course" became an Athletics Director at a small Montessori school in Cambridge, MA. In his free time he sits, reads, writes and watches sports.