Archives: Authors

Shozan Jack Haubner

Shozan Jack Haubner is a Buddhist monk in the Rinzai tradition and author of Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk (Shambhala). He writes under a pseudonym.

Larry Rosenberg is the founder of Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of several books including Breath by Breath and Three Steps to Awakening.

Miguel Chen

Miguel Chen is the bass player for long-running punk rock band Teenage Bottlerocket. He is a meditation practitioner, a yoga instructor, and the owner of Blossom Yoga Studio in Laramie, Wyoming. In addition to appearing in countless Teenage Bottlerocket press pieces, Miguel has been featured by Lion's Roar, PunkNews, Full Contact Enlightenment, LionsRoar.com, Modern Vinyl, Chris Grosso’s MindPod podcast, and more.

Natalie Goldberg

Natalie Goldberg is the author of Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within (Shambhala 1986), The Great Spring: Writing, Zen and This Zigzag Life (Shambhala 2016), and other books on Zen practice and the creative process.

Daniel Asa Rose

Walter Fordham

Catherine Anraku Hondorp Sensei

Catherine Anraku Hondorp Sensei is guiding teacher of Body-Mind Zen Temple in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. She is co-founder of Two Streams Zen, a nonprofit Multicultural Dharma Movement dedicated to transforming people and communities through fearless intimacy and living compassion. www.twostreamszen.org

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.

Brian Brett

Brian Brett is the author of thirteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir, including the prize-winning Trauma Farm and the recently released Wind River Variations. According to Brett, his novel, Coyote, A Mystery, might or might not be (as Salman Rushdie would say) the story of an ecoterrorist who’s an incarnation of Hotei, the Laughing Buddha. Brett lives with his wife, Sharon, on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, where they farm garlic, pussy willows, and eggs.

Ellen Watters Sullivan

Ellen Watters Sullivan is a writer and psychotherapist living in Vermont. She is writing a memoir, I Once Was Lost: How I Got Found, about her life growing up in Georgia and discovering her ancestors’ dark past.

Edward Boyce

Jan Willis

Jan Willis is a Professor of Religion Emerita at Wesleyan University as well as a visiting professor at Agnes Scott College. She has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland, and the U.S. for five decades, and has taught courses in Buddhism almost as long. Her work has explored meditation, hagiography, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race; her most recent book is Dharma Matters: Women, Race, and Tantra.

An Olive Branch

An Olive Branch is a Buddhist-inspired organization that helps communities resolve conflicts and design ethical governance procedures. It is directed by Kyoki Roberts, Katheryn Wiedman, and Leslie Hospodar. Visit <a href="http://www.an-olive-branch.org/" title="An Olive Branch">an-olive-branch.org</a> for more information.

Gina Sharpe

Gina Sharpe was born in Jamaica and immigrated to New York as a child. After successful careers in government, the motion picture industry, philanthropy, and law, she cofounded New York Insight Meditation Center in 1997, where she led its People of Color sangha and served as its guiding teacher until 2017. A member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, she led, with Larry Yang, Lila Kate Wheeler, and Rachel Bagby, the most diverse dharma teacher training in Spirit Rock's history, which was completed in September.

Chris Malcomb

Chris Malcomb lives in Berkeley, California. His essays have appeared in periodicals such as The Sun, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Narrative, Common Ground, Under the Sun, Teachers & Writers, and Under the Gum Tree. He has led workshops for the Prison University Project at San Quentin and the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute, and he is the founder of The Mindful Writer, which offers classes and coaching in mindfulness and creative writing throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more and read other works at <a title="Mindful Writer" href="http://www.mindfulwriter.org">www.mindfulwriter.org</a>.

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 A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Times (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 The Wisdom of Imperfection (Snow Lion) and Feeling Wisdom (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.