Archives: Authors

Linda González

Linda González is a life coach and the author of the memoir The Cost of Our Lives.

Rachel Paige King

Rachel Paige King is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, and many other publications.

A New York City-based dance journalist, Karen Greenspan is a frequent contributor to Natural History Magazine and Ballet Review. She’s the author of Footfalls from the Land of Happiness: A Journey into the Dances of Bhutan.

Sarah Shaw

Sarah Shaw is Khyentse Foundation Reader in Buddhist Studies at the University of South Wales, a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, and author of Mindfulness: Where it Comes from and What it Means.

Juhn Ahn

Juhn Ahn is associate professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies and author of Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press, 2018). His present research interests include the history of the Koryŏ economy, reading habits in Song dynasty Chan Buddhism, and the cultural history of weather and wealth during the Chosŏn Period.

Paula Arai

Paula Arai the author of Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals, Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns, and Painting Enlightenment. She is a professor of religious studies at Louisiana State University, where she also serves on the faculties of women's and gender studies, Asian studies, and Chinese culture and commerce.

Patrick Dowd

Patrick Dowd is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the culture of Tibetan language within the world of Tibetan Buddhism. He has spent several years studying, researching, and collaboratively working with Tibetan communities in Tibet, Nepal and India.

Marnie Crawford Samuelson

Marnie Crawford Samuelson is a documentary photographer, multimedia producer, and storyteller. Her photographs have appeared in national magazines and in two books: Lasting Words with Claire Willis and The Wild Braid with poets Stanley Kunitz and Genine Lentine. She has directed and photographed several short films. She lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and Berkeley, California.

Claire B. Willis

Claire B. Willis is a clinical social worker who has worked in the field of oncology and bereavement for more than twenty years. She is a cofounder of the Boston nonprofit Facing Cancer Together and regularly leads bereavement, end-of-life, support, and therapeutic writing groups. As a lay Buddhist chaplain, she focuses on contemplative practices for end-of-life care. She maintains a private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.

David Richo

David Richo is a psychotherapist and the author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships and Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing.