Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki (born Ruth Diana Lounsbury) is an American-Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her fiction—including My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, A Tale for the Time Being, and The Book of Form and Emptiness—mixes personal narrative with themes of technology, environmental politics, religion, and global culture. She is also a filmmaker (Halving the Bones), a memoirist (The Face: A Time Code), and a long-time Zen practitioner who has served on the faculty at Smith College.