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.
Ruth Ozeki
Recent Articles
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."
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.
The Writer’s Way
Ruth Ozeki reviews "Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature Into the Twenty-First Century".
About a Poem: Taha Muhammad Ali’s “Revenge”
At times … I wish / I could meet in a duel / the man who killed my father
The Art of Losing
Ruth L. Ozeki's touching memoir is also a profound meditation on love, stories, and the difference between losing and letting go.
My Year of Meats
Mirroring the journey of her novel’s heroine, Ruth Ozeki explored meat and media and discovered that writing is always political and denial always a choice. What’s in a Name? Last year my first novel was published. It’s called My Year of Meats. It’s a good title, I think. A funny title. A little proud, a…