Archives: Authors
Stephen Addiss
Stephen Addiss is an author, painter, calligrapher, and art professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He is coauthor of <i>The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin</i>, with Audrey Yoshiko Seo.
Stephen Schettini
Stephen Schettini is the author of The Novice: Why I Became a Buddhist Monk, Why I Quit, and What I Learned.
Linda Bamber
Linda Bamber is the author of <i>Metropolitan Tang</i>, a collection of her poetry, and <i>Comic Women, Tragic Men: Gender and Genre in Shakespeare</i>. She teaches in the English department at Tufts University, where she offers a course on Buddhism and American poetry.
Jean-Claude van Itallie
<a href="http://vanItallie.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jean-Claude van Itallie</a> was a seminal force in the New York Off-Broadway theater of the sixties. A student of Trungpa, Rinpoche since 1968, van Itallie wrote the play, Tibetan Book of the Dead, and is currently co-writing the opera libretto of MILA, Great Sorcerer, about the life of Milarepa. An inspired teacher of play writing and performance, van Itallie has transformed the old farm in Western Massachusetts where he lives into <a href="http://shantigar.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shantigar Foundation</a> for theater, meditation, and healing.
Benjamin Riggs
Benjamin Riggs is the spirituality editor of, and a writer for, <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">elephantjournal.com</a>, and is the director of The Refuge Meditation Group in Shrevesport, LA. Visit his blog <a href="http://refugegroupbr.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
Geertje Couwenbergh
Geertje Couwenbergh is a freelance writer, cultural anthropologist, dharma practitioner and author of several books. She is based in the Netherlands. Find out more on www.PotentialBuddha.com
Charlotte Joko Beck
Charlotte Joko Beck was an American Zen teacher and the author of the books <i>Everyday Zen: Love and Work</i> and <i>Nothing Special: Living Zen</i>.
Michael Sowder
Michael Sowder’s <i>The Empty Boat</i>, which won the 2004 T.S. Eliot Prize, features Buddhist- and Daoist-inspired poems. His forthcoming collection, <i>House Under the Moon</i>, combines poems of fatherhood with poems inspired by the bhakti tradition of Mirabai and Kabir. Sowder is a member of the Cache Valley Sangha in Logan, Utah.
Sarah Loring
Sarah T. Loring is a psychotherapist and mindfulness retreat leader who has been teaching meditation for more than thirty years. She is the author of <i>Eating with Fierce Kindness: A Mindful and Compassionate Guide to Losing Weight</i>.