Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki
Ozeki signing books at Hotel la Rose in Santa Rosa, March 21, 2013.
Ozeki signing books at Hotel la Rose in Santa Rosa, March 21, 2013.
BornRuth Diana Lounsbury
(1956-03-12) March 12, 1956 (age 68)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation
NationalityAmerican and Canadian
EducationSmith College (BA)
Notable worksMy Year of Meats (1998); All Over Creation (2003); A Tale for the Time Being (2013)
Website
www.ruthozeki.com

Ruth Ozeki (born March 12, 1956) is an American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. Her books and films, including the novels My Year of Meats (1998), All Over Creation (2003), A Tale for the Time Being (2013), and The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021), seek to integrate personal narrative and social issues, and deal with themes relating to science, technology, environmental politics, race, religion, war and global popular culture. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. She teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities in the Department of English Language and Literature.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Ruth Ozeki | Penguin Random House". www.penguinrandomhouse.com. Archived from the original on March 26, 2019. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Palumbo-Liu, David (September 16, 2014). "Where We Are for the Time Being with Ruth Ozeki". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on July 27, 2018. Retrieved March 27, 2017.