Archives: Authors

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.

Amy J. Boyer

Amy J. Boyer is a writer and editor living in Winters, California.

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.

Stephen Foehr

Lisa Carver

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.

Mark Unno

Mark Unno is an ordained priest in the Shin Buddhist tradition and an Associate Professor of Buddhism at the University of Oregon. He is the author of <em>Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light</em>, and the editor of <em>Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures</em>.

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.

Jessica Morey

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.

Guo Gu (Jimmy Yu)

Guo Gu is a Chan teacher and professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Florida State University. The founder and teacher of the Tallahassee Chan Center in Florida, he is the trainer of all Western dharma teachers in the Dharma Drum lineage of master Sheng Yen; in 2020, he also founded the socially engaged, intra-denominational Buddhist organization Dharma Relief. His books include <em>Essence of Chan</em> and <em>Silent Illumination</em> (2021).

Rod Meade Sperry

Rod Meade Sperry is the editor of <em>Buddhadharma</em>, Lion's Roar's online source for committed Buddhists, and the book <em>A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporary Buddhist Teachers</em>. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his partner and their tiny pup, Sid.

Emily Horn

Emily West Horn is an authorized teacher of mindfulness and insight Meditation. She's been mentoring mindfulness teachers in a certification program led by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D and Tara Brach Ph.D for over 7 years and leads teacher development groups at MindfulnessTeachers.Space.

Andrew Schelling

Poet, translator and avid mountaineer, Andrew Schelling teaches at Naropa University. He is a longtime student of Zen. His translations of poetry from classical India are widely anthologized. Growing up in New England, Schelling was a frequent visitor to Fenway Park, home of the tragic Boston Red Sox. Recent titles include <em>Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poetry </em>and<em> Wild Form, Savage Grammar: Poetry, Ecology, Asia.</em>

Noah Levine

Noah Levine is the founder of the Against the Stream and Dharma Punx communities and the author of <em>Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction</em>, published by HarperOne, June 2014.