2010 Alumna
Cottage: Meadow House
BIO: Ruth Ozeki is a writer, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of four novels, The Book of Form and Emptiness, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and A Tale for the Time Being, which won the LA Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Her novels have been published in over thirty countries, and her films, including the documentary Halving the Bones, have been screened on PBS, at the Sundance Film Festival, and at colleges and universities internationally. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth was ordained as a priest in 2010 by Norman Fischer and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She lives in Massachusetts and teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.