Archives: Authors
J. Jason Graff
J. Jason Graff has been practicing vipassana meditation for 11 years. He's the author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spectrum-Light-Collection-Stories-ebook/dp/B0012S9WA8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1363277510&sr=1-1" rel="noopener">Spectrum Light</a></em>, a collection of short stories.
Lorenn Walker
Lorenn Walker, JD, MPH, is a Hawai'i-based public health educator who focuses on building peace and increasing individual and organizational performance. She received the 2011 John Byrd Pioneer Award for Restorative and Community Justice from the National Conference on Restorative Justice. She has meditated for over thirty years.
Jerry Braza
Jerry Braza, Ph.D., is the author of <a href="http://www.theseedsoflove.net/" rel="noopener">The Seeds of Love: Growing Mindful Relationships</a>, published by Tuttle Publishing -- which includes a foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh, in whose lineage Jerry serves as a teacher.
Richard Schiffman
Richard Schiffman is a poet, an environmental journalist, and the author of two spiritual biographies who is based in New York City. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian, among other outlets.
Alixa Doom
Alixa Doom also writes poetry, and her chapbook, <i>Cedar Crossings<i>, was awarded the Blue Light Poetry Prize and published in the spring of 2010. She has completed two book manuscripts, one of poems and one a memoir. After retirement from her work at the hospital, she moved from her home of many years in the Minnesota River Valley to South Minneapolis, where she is a member of Common Ground Meditation Center.
Scott Lillico
Scott Lillico is a writer, photographer and videographer. After spending a year abroad in India, Southeast Asia and Europe, Scott continues his journey as a writer in Canada.
Christa Joy
<a href="https://christajoymusic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christa Joy</a> is a singer-songwriter and elementary school teacher. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her partner, Jeremy, and mutt dog, Jack.
Kieran Cunningham
Describing himself, Kieran Cunningham writes: "I’m a thirty-one year old forester based in the Scottish Highlands. I have been a Buddhist practitioner on and off since the age of fifteen and studied for a PhD in Philosophy (on Nagarjuna’s 'Writings on the Middle Way') at the University of Lisbon but didn’t make the transition to a more pragmatic and experiential approach to practice until more recently."
Jessica O’Neill
Jessica O’Neill is a writer, traveler, neon sign historian and self-proclaimed ”strange goth lady” who lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. She works for an NGO that helps to reunite trafficked children with their families, and she will begin a Masters of Cultural Heritage Studies in London in the Fall of 2013. Jessica recently spent 6 weeks at Kopan Monastery where she formally took refuge and tried not to listen to punk on her iPod.
Marie Rose White
Marie Rose White grew up Catholic in Detroit, and after college, she left to live and work all over the United States. She's not sure what or where she'll be next year, but right now, she's in Denver.