Archives: Authors
Roberta Werdinger
Roberta Werdinger is a poet, freelance writer, and editor in Ukiah, California. She lived at Tassajara Mountain Center and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center for ten years, and was ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 2000.
Rose Taylor
Rose Taylor Goldfield is a second-generation Buddhist teacher with the Wisdom Sun practice and Study community in San Francisco.
Laura Jomon Martin
Laura Jomon Martin is a licensed clinical social worker and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor in Portland, Oregon. She is a student of Jan Chozen Bays Roshi and Zen teacher Hogen Bays at the Zen Community of Oregon.
Holly Stocking
Holly Stocking is a retired journalist and educator living in Bloomington, Indiana. She has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1998. She is deeply grateful to all her teachers for their kind advice.
Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli is a journalist whose last staff job was on the public radio show Marketplace. An early chronicler of the dawn of the World Wide Web as a columnist at the New York Times CyberTimes, she has also been the Internet correspondent at MSNBC. She began her career at CNN, worked in local news in North Carolina, and has directed several documentaries about Southern culture. Visit her online at LisaNapoli.com.
Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein was a reporter for more than a decade with the Yomiuri Shinbun, Japan's largest newspaper. He also served as chief investigator in 2006 and 2007 for a U.S. State Department study on human trafficking in Japan. He is the author of <i>Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan.</i>
Elizabeth Williams
Buddhist psychologist (retired) Elizabeth Williams, Ph.D. supervises new therapists at Rutgers Graduate School of Professional Psychology and practices with Princeton Buddhist Meditation Group (Tibetan) and Cold Mountain Zen in New Jersey.
Ronlyn Domingue
Ronlyn Domingue is the author of the novel <em>The Mercy of Thin Air</em>. Her writing has appeared in New England Review, Clackamas Literary Review, New Delta Review, The Independent, and The Nervous Breakdown, an online literary magazine.
Karen Armstrong
Her first book, Through the Narrow Gate, described the years that Karen Armstrong spent as a Catholic nun. She has since published numerous bestsellers, including A History of God, Islam, and Buddha. Awarded the $10,000 TED Prize in 2008, she advocated drafting a global Charter for Compassion in the spirit of the Golden Rule.
Ed Brickell
Ed Brickell works and runs in Dallas, Texas, participating in ultramarathons (races of 50 kilometers or longer) around the United States. He writes about the crossroads of his Zen practice and running at www.runwithmu.com.
Saransh Sehgal
Saransh Sehgal is a photographer and writer living in Dharamsala, India. He has written about the Dalai Lama, Tibet and the geopolitics of the region. Some of his work can be seen at: http://www.lightstalkers.org/saransh-sehgal
Judith Toy
Judith Toy was ordained as a member of the Order of Interbeing by Thich Nhat Hanh in 1997, and along with her husband, Philip Toy, has founded several sanghas in that tradition, including one in a men’s prison. She leads mindfulness retreats and is the editor of Cloud Cottage Editions.
Ari Goldfield
Ari Goldfield is a Buddhist teacher and translator who studied under Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche for many years. He translated Khenpo Tsültrim’s books <em>Stars of Wisdom and The Sun of Wisdom</em>, and is a contributing author to <em>Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind</em>.
James Coleman
James William Coleman is a professor of sociology at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, and is the author of The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition.
Edward Sangetsu Sullivan
Edward Sangetsu Sullivan is a dharma holder in the White Plum lineage of Zen. He trains with the Zen Community of Baltimore/Clare Sangha and is a member of the Red Rose Sangha in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Kevin Weinfurt
Kevin Weinfurt, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center and holds a shodan (first degree black) belt in To Shin Do.