Archives: Authors
Meredith Arena
Meredith Arena is a writer, artist, teacher and sometimes performer from New York City, who currently resides in Seattle. She began studying Buddhism at The Interdependence Project in 2008 and completed teacher training there in 2011. She teaches meditation to willing students, sells fruit and vegetable in the Pike Place Market and works with homeless youth in Seattle.
Sarah Lipton
Sarah Lipton is the editor of <em>The Shambhala Times</em>. Currently, she lives at Karme Choling in Barnet, Vermont.
Emily Herzlin
Emily Herzlin is a writer and teacher living in New York City. She teachers a Meditation and Creative Writing class at Columbia University, and her work has been published in USA Today, Newsday, and The Women's International Perspective, among others. Visit Emily at her <a href="http://emilyherzlin.com/">website</a>
Kelly Lawrence
Kelly Lawrence</strong> is a teacher, mother and writer living in the Derbyshire Dales, where the landscape is constantly inspiring her practice. Her first novel, <em>Wicked Games,</em> came out in July 2013, published by Random House. Read more at <a href="http://www.lotuswriter.moonfruit.com/">her blog</a>.
Jessica Bizub
Jessica Bizub is a researcher at a public university and serves as president of a nonprofit organization, Arcos Milwaukee. Jessica practices and studies at the Shambhala Center of Milwaukee.
Samuel Gentoku McCree
Samuel Gentoku McCree is a personal trainer and founder of the <a href="http://www.mindfulfitnessmovement.com/">Mindful Fitness Movement</a>, a mindfulness-based fitness community that supports anyone in using mindfulness and body practice to reduce suffering, grow inside and out, and change their lives for the better. He strives to support others in pursuing a balanced approach to enduring and fundamental transformation.
Kate Menzies
Kate Menzies is a poet and workshop facilitator in the San Francico Bay Area. She has an MFA at Mills College and annually holds a writers' workshop on meditation called 'Undoing Poetry.' Visit Kate online at <a href="http://katemenzies.webs.com/">katemenzies.webs.com</a>.
Sophia Aguiñaga
Sophia Aguiñaga lives in Portland, Oregon, and now works as an editor for a private foundation.