Charles Johnson is a novelist and essayist who has won numerous awards, including the Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships and the National Book Award. He is Professor of English at the University of Washington. This story is from his recent short story collection, Dr. King’s Refrigerator, published by Scribner. He has…
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Polly Young-Eisendrath is a Jungian psychoanalyst and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont. She is the author of The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance.
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Miriam Greenspan is the author of A New Approach to Women and Therapy, and Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear and Despair.
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Misha Becker is a poet and hospice volunteer. In between sesshins at the Chapel Hill Zen Centre (her cats’ least favorite time of year) Becker teaches linguistics at the University of North Carolina. She received the precepts as a lay Buddhist in 2006.
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Brenda Shoshanna is a psychologist and a practitioner of Zen and Judaism. She is the author of Jewish Dharma and Zen and the Art of Falling in Love. Her work focuses on integrating East and West, and she offers workshops on relationships and personal and spiritual development.
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Lily Koppel wrote The Red Leather Diary, the true story of how she found a young woman’s 1930s diary in a dumpster and returned it to its now elderly owner. A Graduate of Barnard, Koppel studied Buddhism with Robert Thurman at Columbia University.
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