Sam Guthrie

Sam Guthrie is a writer and Buddhist practitioner living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Nick Walser

Nick Walser lives in Brighton, England. He's practiced Zen for about six years, and took the bodhisattva vows recently. <a href="http://thestinkofzen.blogspot.ca/" />Read more from Nick at his blog</a>.

Ralph Steele

Ralph Steele

Ralph Steele is the founder of Life Transition Therapy, a trauma-healing center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A longtime practitioner in the Theravada tradition, he has been teaching and leading programs since 1987.

Michael Felberbaum

Michael Felberbaum lives in Hamden, Connecticut, with his wife and two kids. Meditation has been a daily part of his life for more than 5 years, but he's been studying since his early teens. He's currently a graduate student at Wesleyan University and works full-time at Yale University in the Development Office.

Robert DeBoer

Robert DeBoer is 29 years old and has been studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of Sogyal Rinpoche for about 9 years now. He studied Clinical Psychology in Amsterdam and currently lives in a Buddhist center in Berlin.

Kelley Clink

Kelley Clink is a writer and amateur photographer in Chicago. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines, including Under the Sun, South Loop Review, and Gettysburg Review. She is the nonfiction editor of the literary magazine Ray’s Road Review. You can find out more about her at www.kelleyclink.com.

Henry Shukman

A Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage, Henry Shukman teaches at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe. He grew up in Oxford, England, and came to New Mexico in 1991 to write <i>Savage Pilgrims</i>, a memoir about searching for D. H. Lawrence’s past. Shukman has published seven books; his latest novel, <i>The Lost City</i>, was a New York Times editors’ choice.

Christian McEwen

Christian McEwen

Christian McEwen is the author of <i>World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down</i> and is the editor of various anthologies, including <i>The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing</i> and <i>Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure.</i>

Roger Housden

Roger Housden grew up on the edge of Bath, England, and—living in the shadow of an ancient stone circle—always felt humans were creatures with one foot in this world and one in another, less visible one. Housden is the author of some twenty books, including the bestselling <i>Ten Poems series</i>, three travel books, and the novella <i>Chasing Rumi</i>. He’s also a writing coach and leads literary and art appreciation journeys.

Susan Gillis Chapman

Susan Gillis Chapman is a marriage and family therapist and the author of <i>The Five Keys to Mindful Communication.</i>

Susan Bauer-Wu

Susan Bauer-Wu

Susan Bauer-Wu is an organizational leader, clinical scientist, and mindfulness teacher, who since 2015 has served as the President of the Mind & Life Institute, an organization co-founded by the Dalai Lama to bring science and contemplative wisdom together to better understand the mind and create positive change in the world. At Mind & Life, she has championed “human-earth connection” as a priority focus area. Early in her career she was an oncology and hospice nurse and then received a PhD specializing in psychoneuroimmunology, and has since held leadership and academic roles in nonprofits, universities, and health care. Susan is the author of A Future We Can Love and Leaves Falling Gently.

Kathleen Dean Moore

Kathleen Dean Moore, author of <i>Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature and Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril</i>, is a distinguished professor of philosophy at Oregon State University.

Lori Deschene

Lori Deschene is the author of <i>Tiny Buddha</i> and founder of the popular website tinybuddha.com.

Sister Chan Khong

Sister Chan Khong

Sister Chan Khong has been Thich Nhat Hanh’s closest collaborator for more than fifty years. She’s the author of <em>Deep Relaxation</em> (Parallax Press).

Laura Randeles

Laura Randeles was raised in Houston, Texas. In 2008 she became a yoga teacher and has taught various forms of yoga to anyone willing to show up to her classes. She now lives in Washington, DC and works as a contract attorney by day and yoga teacher by night.

Michael J. Sweet

Michael J. Sweet is the author of <i>Mission to Tibet: The Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Account of Father Ippolito Desideri</i> and a researcher in Madison, Wisconsin, focusing on the early modern Catholic missions to Tibet.

Julianne Victoria

Julianne Victoria is a writer and massage therapist with an interest in Buddhism and the healing arts. She lives in Seattle.

Kittisaro

Kittisaro was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before going to Thailand in 1976 and ordaining with Ajahn Chah. He lived as a monk in the Forest Tradition for fifteen years and has practiced Chan and Pure Land Buddhism for the past thirty years.