Archives: Authors
Taz Tagore
Taz Tagore is cofounder of the Reciprocity Foundation and has spent nearly twenty years volunteering at youth shelters and working with homeless youth in the U.S., Canada, and India. She lives in New York City, where she tries hard to practice meditation amid the sound of jackhammers, her homeless students’ phones ringing, and her five-year-old daughter’s endless stream of knock-knock jokes.
Joanna Macy
PhD, teacher and author, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, Macy has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change that brings a new way of seeing the world as our larger body. Macy received a BA from Wellesley College in 1950 and a PhD in Religion from Syracuse University in 1978. She continues to write and teach in Berkeley, California. Her most recent book is <i>A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Times </i>(ed. Stephanie Kaza). To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.joannamacy.net/" rel="noopener">www.joannamacy.net</a>.
Alice Walker
Alice Walker's poems, novels, and short stories deal with themes of violence, isolation, troubled relationships, multi-generational perspectives, sexisim and racism.
Rob Preece
Rob Preece is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher living in England. He is the author of <em>The Wisdom of Imperfection</em> (Snow Lion) and <em>Feeling Wisdom</em> (Shambhala).
Pamela Rubin
Pamela Rubin is a women’s trauma counselor, lawyer, and consultant on women’s access to justice. She is also a member of the Shambhala community and curates a blog, <a href="http://sunflowervoices.ca/" title="Sunflower Voices">SunFlowerVoices.ca</a>, on establishing a woman-positive society.
Grace Schireson
Grace Schireson is president of Shogaku Zen Institute (a Zen teachers’ training seminary) and a clinical psychologist. She played a key role in drafting the Zen Women ancestors Document, along with Jiko Sallie Tisdale, Peter Levitt, and Zoketsu norman Fischer.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Lama Tsultrim Allione is the founder of the Tara Mandala retreat center in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and author of <em>Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons</em>. In 1970 she became one of the first American women to be ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She was a 2009 recipient of the Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award.
Brad Warner
A Soto Zen priest, Brad Warner is a punk bassist, filmmaker, Japanese-monster-movie-marketer, and popular blogger. He is the author of Hardcore Zen, Sit Down and Shut Up, and Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate.
Hozan Alan Senauke
Hozan Alan Senauke is vice-abbot of Berkeley Zen Center in California, where he lives with his family. As a socially engaged Buddhist activist, Alan has worked closely with Buddhist Peace Fellowship and the International Network of Engaged Buddhists since 1991. In 2007 he founded Clear View Project, developing Buddhist-based resources for relief and social change in Asia and the United States.
Matt Bieber
Matt Bieber is a freelance writer in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He writes about obsessions, personal and political.
Jan Chozen Bays
Jan Chozen Bays Roshi is co-abbot of Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon. She is the author of <em>Mindful Eating</em> and <em>How to Train a Wild Elephant.</em>
Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel has been a student of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche for almost forty years. Founder of the non-profit The Middle Way Initiative, she is also the host and creator of the Open Question podcast and the author of <em>The Power of an Open Question</em> and <em>The Logic of Faith</em>.
Geri Larkin
Geri Larkin gave up a successful career as a management consultant to become a Buddhist teacher. A practicing Buddhist since 1988, she completed seminary and was ordained in 1995. She is the founder and former head teacher of Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple, a Zen meditation center in the heart of inner-city Detroit. She is the author of many books including <em>Stumbling Toward Enlightenment</em>, <em>Building a Business the Buddhist Way</em>,<em>Tap Dancing in Zen</em>, <em>First You Shave Your Head</em>, and <em>The Still Point Dhammapada</em>. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
David Swick
David Swick teaches journalism at King’s College in Halifax and is the author of <em>Thunder and Ocean</em>, a book about Buddhism in Nova Scotia.
Anne Cushman
<a href="http://annecushman.com/">Anne Cushman</a> is the author of the memoir <em><a href="https://www.annecushman.com/mama-sutra/">The Mama Sutra: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood</a></em>; the novel<a href="https://www.annecushman.com/enlightenment-for-idiots/"> <em>Enlightenment for Idiots</em></a>; and other books. She directs the mentoring program for <a href="https://mmtcp.soundstrue.com/">The Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program</a> and is on the teachers council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.