Archives: Authors

Cindy Littlefair

Cindy Littlefair has been on staff at Lion’s Roar for sixteen years. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College.

Since completing the Dharma Immersion Program at the Interdependence Project in 2011, Caroline Contillo has been interested in using the lenses of mindfulness, improv comedy, direct action, and science fiction to see how we might co-create a just and joyous world. She teaches meditation at MNDFL, a new studio in Lower Manhattan. She lives in Queens, and invites you to check out her personal site <a href="http://spacecrone.com/">spacecrone.com</a> or follow her on twitter, <a href="http://twitter.com/spacecrone">@spacecrone</a>.

Krissy Pozatek

Krissy Pozatek, LCSW, is the author of Brave Parenting: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children (Wisdom Publications).

Iain McGlashan

Dave Smith

Dave Smith is a GenX dharma teacher whose work focuses on uncovering a dharma path found within the early Buddhist tradition.

Tenku Ruff

Tenku Ruff, Osho, is a Soto Zen priest who trained in Japan. She is a professional chaplain living in New York and holds a Master of Divinity from Maitripa College.

Nina La Rosa

Nina la Rosa teaches mindfulness-based psychotherapy and mindfulness at Exquisite Mind in Burlington, Vermont. She is a student of Shinzen Young.

Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist minister, author, activist, yoga instructor and authorized Lama, or Buddhist teacher, in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and is considered one of the leaders of his generation of Buddhist teachers. He holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation. Owens is the co-founder of Bhumisparsha, a Buddhist tantric practice and study community. Has been published in Buddhadharma, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle and The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and offers talks, retreats and workshops in more than seven countries.

Matthew Bortolin

Matthew Bortolin has camped out for tickets to all the Star Wars movies, and a set of Jedi robes hangs in his closet. He is an ordained member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, and has lived in Buddhist monasteries both in the United States and abroad. He lives in Ventura, California.

Josh Bartok

Josh Bartok (Keido Mu'nen) is the abbot (head teacher and spiritual director) at the Greater Boston Zen Center. He is a Dharma heir of James Ishmael Ford Roshi in both of the roshi's lineages: the ordained Soto Zen lineage of Jiyu Kennett, and the koan introspection lineage of John Tarrant.