Archives: Authors
Ben J. Hutchison
"I am a husband. I am a father. I sit zazen daily," says Ben Hutchison. He lives in Cincinnati.
Duc Hong Ta
Duc Hong Ta is an inmate in a California State Prison, where he's serving 35 to life.
Angela Allan
Angela Allan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in English and a concentration in creative writing. She has walked a pilgrimage across Spain, researched dragonfly thermoregulation in Guyana, taught English in Ecuador, backpacked through Europe and Morocco, and trekked across icebergs off the Southern coast of Argentina. She writes stories, rhyming poems and creative non-fiction. Read more at her <a href="http://angelaallan.com/">website</a>.
Leslie Gossett
"A student of all things human, I find myself coming to the spaces between," Leslie Gossett says. "I write, breathe, think, feel, learn, fear, love, lose, eat, practice yoga, meditate, and sleep." She recently relocated to the Bay Area, and attends school for Holistic Health.
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 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 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 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.