Archives: Authors
Sam van Schaik
Sam van Schaik is a researcher and scholar working at the British Library with the early Tibetan manuscripts from the sealed cave at Dunhuang. He is author of <em>Approaching the Great Perfection</em> and coeditor of <em>Esoteric Buddhism</em> at Dunhuang with Matthew Kapstein (Brill, 2010).
Nancy Gibbs
A finalist at the 2008 San Francisco Writers Conference in Nonfiction and Memoir, Nancy Gibbs is currently writing a collection of stories which features "Bye, Frog" about one of her more unusual teachers. She spent a couple of decades teaching secondary English and supervising student publications in Colorado. Aside from writing, she hikes the Colorado back country and creates mosaics.
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 is the founder of Dharmata Foundation and the author of Releasing the Knot of the Mind: Instructions on Resting in Stillness and Awareness.
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>