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.