Archives: Authors
Rebecca Jamieson
Rebecca Jamieson grew up in the Driftless region of Southwest Wisconsin and moved to Portland, Oregon in her mid-twenties. She was drawn to Buddhism through the writing of Natalie Goldberg and the influence of a creative writing teacher who incorporated meditation into her classes. Rebecca's poetry and lyric essays have appeared in Stirring, &review, r(evolve), Cup of Poems, and the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar.
Karuna Cayton
Karuna Cayton, psychotherapist and author of The Misleading Mind, spent twelve years working with Tibetan refugees in Nepal and studying with Buddhist masters. His Karuna Group practice applies Buddhist psychology to individual and organizational clients. He lives in Northern California. Visit him online at www.thekarunagroup.com.
Stillman Brown
Stillman Brown lives in Brooklyn, NY, and says about himself: "I was born & raised in the Midwest, moved east for college. I studied literature and then worked as a paralegal, photographer, nanny, hiking bum, and now in television. I love my communities in New York, Buddhist and otherwise. Without them, the city would've eaten me long ago."
Jacey Tramutt
Jacey Tramutt is a psychotherapist in Golden, CO that helps people struggling with anxiety get confident and back to living the life they love. She offers equine facilitated psychotherapy to clients that are interested in cultivating self-awareness through being in relationship with horses. Besides her work, Jacey is passionate about maintaining old-school family values in a high-tech world and passing those along to her twenty-month-old son. For more information about Jacey, please visit: www.cultivateconfidence.com.
Greg Sumner
Greg Sumner is a member of the Still Point Temple Detroit sangha. He is the author of <i>Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels</i> (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011).
Claudia Chender MacLellan
Claudia Chender MacLellan is a mother, a Buddhist practitioner, a lawyer and, she says, "a bunch of other things." She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with her husband and twin daughters.
Dinty W. Moore
Dinty W. Moore is a professor at Ohio University, where he directs the graduate program in creative writing. He has published several books of fiction and nonfiction, including two books on the craft of writing, and the coordinating editor of <i>The Best Creative Nonfiction</i>. He lives in Athens, Ohio.
Susan Quinn
Susan Quinn is a semi-retired independent consultant in the areas of communication, conflict and change. She wrote an essay included in the book, <i>Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power</i>. In addition, she leads a meditation group in Poinciana, FL, and trains with Lawson Sachter Sensei at Windhorse Zen Community in North Carolina.
Steven Shippee
Steven Shippee is a lay Catholic theologian who writes on Buddhist-Christian dialogue. He teaches at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wisconsin.
Kate Lila Wheeler
Kate Lila Wheeler, who lives in Boston, has been meditating since 1977 and brings an amazing life journey to her teaching. She grew up in South America, was ordained as a nun in Burma by her teacher U Pandita, became U Pandita's editor and an award winning writer herself, and has received Dzogchen transmission as a lama in the Tibetan tradition, in addition to completing teacher training with Jack Kornfield.
Trudy Goodman
Trudy Goodman, PhD, is the founder and guiding teacher of InsightLA. She has practiced Zen and Vipassana meditation since 1974 and has trained extensively in psychotherapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction, which she taught with its creator, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. She was the co-founder of the original Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first center in the world dedicated to integrating these two disciplines. She teaches retreats and workshops nationwide.
Jennifer Hotchner
Jennifer Hotchner is a writer and psychotherapist in Crestone and Boulder, Co. She holds a Masters degree in Contemplative Psychology from Naropa University. Visit her online at bouldercontemplativepsyche.com
Kiera Van Gelder
Kiera Van Gelder is an artist, educator, and mental health activist. She is the author of the recently published memoir <i>The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery From Borderline Personality Disorder Through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating</i> (New Harbinger Publications).
Amy Yee
Amy Yee is an American journalist and writer based in New Delhi. She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist, among other publications, and is a former correspondent for the Financial Times. She has written extensively about Tibetan issues since 2008.
Nishiari Bokusan
Nishiari Bokusan (1821–1910) was a prominent Dogen scholar and author of Shobo genzo Keiteki (The Opening Way of the Shobogenzo). He was the head of the Soto Zen school and served as abbot of Sojiji in Japan, an important temple in the Soto tradition.
Jill Suttie
Jill Suttie, Psy.D., is Greater Good’s book review editor and a frequent contributor to the magazine.