Mark Frank

Mark Frank is a writer, translator, and farmer living in the Missouri Ozarks with his wife and two young children.

Donnell King

Donnell King

Donnell King is associate professor of communication studies at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Jaed Muncharoen Coffin

At the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin left New England’s Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s native Thai village. His debut book </em>A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants<em> (<a href="http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0306815265">Da Capo Press</a>, 2009) chronicles his time at the temple. Coffin holds an M.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Writing Program.

Anna Narvid

Anna Narvid writes on matters of physical and emotional health for Examiner.com.

Patty Winter

Patty Winter

Patty Winter is a Zen practitioner living in Ashland. Oregon. She teaches and works as an R.N., End-of-Life Care Practitioner and as an Executive Assistant at the Metta Institute of Spirituality in Dying.

Molly McCahan

Molly McCahan is a San Francisco-based freelance writer, travel nut, and Vipassana practitioner. She’s currently working with her husband on a book proposal about their adventures abroad.

Willis Barnstone

Willis Barnstone’s many books include <i>The Restored New Testament, The Gnostic Bible</i>, and the volume of poetry <i>Moonbook and Sunbook</i>. He lives in Oakland, California.