Archives: Authors

Chris Ranier

Chris Rainier is a documentary photographer and National Geographic explorer who’s highly respected for his documentation of endangered cultures and traditional languages around the globe. He’s a fellow at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Emily France

Emily France's debut adult novel, Daughter Dalloway, is a retelling of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Her books for young adults include Zen and Gone.

Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Middle Passage. He’s coauthor of the new graphic novel The Eightfold Path.

Shyam Selvadurai

Shyam Selvadurai’s new novel, Mansions of the Moon, is a historical novel about the Buddha’s wife, Yasodhara.

Lauren Shufran

Lauren Shufran is the author of The Buddha and the Bard: Where Shakespeare’s Stage Meets Buddhist Scriptures.

Joan Stamm

Joan D. Stamm is the author of The Language of Flowers in the Time of Covid: Finding Solace in Zen, Nature, and Ikebana. She’s a certified teacher in the Saga School of Ikebana.

Atia Sattar

Atia Sattar is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Writing at the University of Southern California. She has been practicing Buddhism for nine years and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two daughters, cat and dog.

Kimmen Sjolander

Kimmen Sjölander is a genome scientist, evolutionary biologist, and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. She has three children and lives with her husband in Amsterdam.

Sandra Gonzalez

Sandra was born in Nicaragua and has lived in the United States since 1980. Since 1988, Sandra has focused on meditative work based on the practice of understanding and exploring our true essence through direct observation from the here and now, moment by moment, which is practiced at the Springwater Center in New York. In 2003, Toni Packer named Sandra as one of the people in charge of continuing the work of "Meditative Inquiry", leading retreats and workshops at Springwater Center, in California, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua during the winter. For more information visit <a href="http://www.springwatercenter.org">www.springwatercenter.org</a>

Keturah Kendrick

A Nichiren Buddhist and member of the Soka Gakkai International, Keturah Kendrick chants nam-myoho-renge-kyo as a core part of her practice. She is an award winning author and freelance writer who currently resides in New York City.