Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of three novels, My Year of Meats , All Over Creation , and A Tale for the Time Being , which was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir, The Face: A Time Code, and a documentary film, Halving the Bones. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foun dation and teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities....See more

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of three novels, My Year of Meats , All Over Creation , and A Tale for the Time Being , which was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir, The Face: A Time Code, and a documentary film, Halving the Bones. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foun dation and teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities. She lives in British Columbia and western Massachusetts. See less