Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki is a Soto Zen priest and an award-winning writer. Her novels include All Over Creation, My Year of Meats, and A Tale for the Time Being. She lives in New York and British Columbia.

Recent Articles

Ruth Ozeki Trauma Transformation Art Writing

Nothing Is Wasted

If you use your difficulties to create art, says Ruth Ozeki, it will give them meaning.

His Dharma Heir

An excerpt from Ruth Ozeki’s new novel, "The Book of Form and Emptiness."

Ono No Komachi Old Woman Poetry Poems Ruth Ozeki Japan

About a Poem: Ruth Ozeki on Ono no Komachi

How do we remember a woman’s life? Can we piece her together from a few lines of poetry?

Confessions of a Zen Novelist

When bestselling author Ruth Ozeki becomes a Zen priest, she finds out Zen and novel writing do not easily go hand in hand.

Ruth Ozeki

The Writer’s Way

Ruth Ozeki reviews "Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature Into the Twenty-First Century".