Dawn Downey

Dawn Downey

Dawn Downey’s work has been published by The Christian Science Monitor, Skirt! Magazine, The Best Times, Kansas City Voices, Alzheimer's Anthology of Unconditional Love, TheAmericanBuddhistCenter.org, and The Topeka Metro News. Because she’s a writer, she has a favorite word: redundant.

Genine Lentine

Genine Lentine is a poet and author of the chapbooks <i>Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes and Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model</i>. She teaches an ongoing Sunday writing workshop at the San Francisco Zen Center, where she was recently artist-in-residence.

Linda Heuman

Linda Heuman is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. She has been a student of Christine Skarda’s since 1995 and is the webmaster for Skarda's online seminar.

Francisca Cho

Francisca Cho is an associate professor of Buddhist studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her current book project looks at how Buddhist views of language can be applied to resolve the conflict between religion and science in contemporary Western culture.

Alexa Mergen

Alexa Mergen's poems and essays have appeared in <i>The Pedestal Magazine, The Redwood Coast Review, High Country News, Parabola, </i>and other journals. She's worked as a school teacher, teaching artist, and humane educator.

Hope Martin

Martin has taught the Alexander Technique since 1987 and has a studio in New York City. She’s a teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.

Anam Thubten

Anam Thubten

Anam Thubten grew up in Tibet and at an early age began to practice in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the founder and spiritual advisor of Dharmata Foundation, and the author of <i>The Magic of Awareness</i> and <i>No Self, No Problem.</i>

Elissa Altman

Elissa Altman

Elissa Altman is the author of <em>Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking</em> and won a James Beard Award for the narrative blog of the same name.

John Manderino

John Manderino’s latest book is a story collection called <i>But You Scared Me the Most.</i>

Elisabeth Coleman

Elisabeth Coleman is a journalist based New York City.