Archives: Authors

Aram Saroyan

Aram Saroyan's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Paris Review, and Rolling Stone. His books include Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation, Last Rites and Trio: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship.

Tara Bray

Tara Bray's poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, Puerto del Sol, Many Mountains Moving, Atlanta Review, Green Mountains Review and Crab Orchard Review. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she studies ashtanga yoga.

Stephanie Kaza

Stephanie Kaza is a longtime practitioner of Soto Zen Buddhism and an environmentalist who explores the intersections of ecology and religion. Professor Emerita of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, she is the author of Green Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times and Conversations with Trees: An Intimate Ecology. She lives in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Kristin Barendsen

Kristin Barendsen writes about Buddhism, yoga and travel from her home in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Melody Ermachild Chavis

Melody Ermachild Chavis is a student at the Berkeley Zen Center. Her second book, Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Life of the Martyred Founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in August.

Shyalpa Rinpoche

The Venerable Shyalpa Rinpoche is the spiritual head of Shyalpa Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, as well as the Rangrig Yeshe Center and Dzogchen Ati Ling Centers in the United States. His root teacher is the renowned Dzogchen master Chatral Rinpoche.

Daniel Menaker

Daniel Menaker is an executive editor at HarperCollins and the author of two collections of stories and a novel, The Treatment.

Miriam Greenspan

Miriam Greenspan is the author of A New Approach to Women and Therapy. Her forthcoming book, Healing Through the Dark Emotions: the Wisdom of Grief, Fear and Despair, will be published by Shambhala.

Leonard Koren

Leonard Koren is founder of the 1970's avant-garde publication Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, and the author of several books, including Gardens of Gravel and Sand and Undesigning the Bath.

Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

Kobun Otogawa (February 1, 1938 – July 26, 2002) was a Sōtō Zen priest.

Jim Bedard

Jim Bedard is author of Lotus in the Fire: The Healing Power of Zen (Shambhala Publications). He is a disciple of Sensei Sunyana Graef and a member of the Toronto Zen Center.

Richard Brown

Richard Brown teaches early childhood education at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Diana Atkinson

Diana Atkinson is the author of Highways and Dancehalls, a finalist in the Governor General of Canada’s Literary Awards. She is a massage therapist in Boulder, Colorado.

Fred Kofman

Fred Kofman is a consultant in organizational learning for a number of large companies and is the founder of Leading Learning Communities, based in Boulder, Colorado.

Toni Packer

Toni Packer (1927 – 2013) was a teacher of Meditative Inquiry and the founder of Springwater Center in New York. Packer was a former student in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism.

Alexander Boldizar

Alexander Boldizar is a Slovak-born Canadian lawyer and writer who has lived throughout Asia, most recently in Nepal and Indonesia. He is author of the novel Flypaper Coils.

Joel Weishaus

Joel Weishaus is a poet, critic, and experimental writer in Portland, Oregon.

Roger Guest

Roger Guest was co- director of Karmê Chöling from 1980 to 1986 and is now director of the Boston Shambhala Meditation Center.

Charles Prebish

Dr. Charles Prebish is the author of Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America, and co-editor of The Faces of Buddhism in America. He held the Charles Redd Chair in Religious Studies at <a href="https://chass.usu.edu/history/directory/emeritus/charles-prebish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah State University</a> from 2007 until 2010.