Archives: Authors

Cassandra Moore

Cassandra Moore is a writer who lives in the soft hills of Santa Fe. She is a resident at Upaya Zen Center, and a native to the desert southwest.

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is a New York Times bestselling author specializing in culture and entertainment. Her new book is When Women Invented Television. She is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Seinfeldia-About-Nothing-Changed-Everything/dp/1476756104/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451873341&sr=8-1&keywords=seinfeldia">Seinfeldia: How the Show About Nothing Changed Everything</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Lou-Rhoda-Ted-History/dp/1451659202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345127707&sr=8-1&keywords=mary+and+lou+and+ted+and+rhoda">Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted</a>, and <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/when-women-invented-television-jennifer-keishin-armstrong?variant=32243113197602">When Women Invented Television</a>. Her new book is <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/so-fetch-jennifer-keishin-armstrong?variant=41072641802274" target="_blank" rel="noopener">So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed with It.</a>)

Don de Silva

Don de Silva is a Buddhist Chaplain, environmentalist, and formerly an official of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

JoAnna Hardy

JoAnna Hardy is an insight meditation (Vipassanā) practitioner and teacher; she is on faculty at the University of Southern California, a meditation trainer at Apple Fitness+, a founding member and teacher at the Meditation Coalition, a visiting teacher at Black Being LA, a visiting retreat teacher at Insight Meditation Society, and a collaborator on many online meditation Apps and programs.

Paul Swanson

Paul L. Swanson is a research fellow at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, and the editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.

Rev. Liên Shutt

Rev. Keiryu Liên Shutt is a Dharma heir in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she began her meditation practice in the Insight tradition. She was a founding member of the Buddhists of Color in 1998. Her Zen trainings began at Tassajara and then continued monastically in Japan and Vietnam. While she has placed her trust and faith in Soto Zen, she continues to enjoy the deep silence of Insight practices and has completed retreats in America and Thailand. Please go to <a href="https://awakeinlife.org/">AwakeInLife.org</a> for info on the sitting group and other events.

Mitchell Ratner

Mitchell Ratner is founder of the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center in Maryland.

Marguerite Manteau-Rao

Marguerite Manteau–Rao is the author of Caring For a Loved One With Dementia.

Clair Brown

Clair Brown, PhD, an economics professor at UC Berkeley, is the author of Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science. She practices engaged Buddhism in her climate justice activism with several organizations working on California climate policies.

Leslie Davis

Leslie J. Davis is a writer who practices meditation and mindfulness in the Plum Village Tradition of Thích Nhất Hạnh. As a member of the Plum Village Order of Interbeing, her dharma name is True Auspicious Dwelling. She has published essays in The Washington Post, LionsRoar.com, The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, Mothering Magazine, The Mindfulness Bell, and Medium. She lives in Ojai, California, with her family. <a href="https://www.lesliejdavis.com/" rel="noopener">www.lesliejdavis.com</a>

Shodo Harada Roshi

Shodo Harada Roshi is the abbot of Sogenji Zen Monastery in Okayama, Japan, and the founder of Tahoma Zen Monastery on Whidbey Island in Washington State, which he visits yearly to lead retreats. He is a dharma heir of Yamada Mumon Roshi (1900–1988), a Zen master in the Rinzai tradition.

Charles Spearin

Charles Spearin is a musician and a founder of Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think. He lives in Toronto.

Richard Rosen

Richard Rosen is a contributing editor at Yoga Journal magazine and the author of The Yoga of Breath

Rev. David Matsumoto

Rev. David Matsumoto is a professor of contemporary Shin Buddhist studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He also serves as resident minister of the Berkeley Buddhist Temple.

Ayya Tathaaloka

Ayya Tathaaloka is a fully ordained bhikkhuni and the second Western woman to be designated as a Theravada bhikkhuni preceptor. She is the founder of Dhammadharini Vihara and cofounder of Aranya Bodhi Hermitage, both in California.

Doshin Nathan Woods

Doshin Nathan Woods is a novice Zen priest at Sweetwater Zen Center. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and teaches at the University of the West in Rosemead, California.

Lorena Hillman

Lorena Hillman is a family practice physician in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bruce Victor

Bruce Victor is in the psychiatry department at the University of California at San Francisco an also in private practice in San Francisco.

Robin Bitner

Robin Bitner is in the psychiatry department at the University of California at San Francisco.

Roger Walsh

Roger Walsh is professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine, as well as author of Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices and The World of Shamanism, and coeditor of Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics.