Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest, whose work has garnered international critical acclaim for its ability to integrate issues of science, technology, religion, environmental politics, and global pop culture into unique, hybrid, narrative forms. She is the author of the award-winning novels My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, A Tale for the Time Being, and The Book of Form and Emptiness. Her nonfiction work includes the short spiritual memoir, The Face: A Timecode and the documentary film Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth was ordained in 2010 and received dharma transmission from her teacher Zoketsu Norman Fischer in 2023. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation. She currently lives in Western Massachusetts, where she taught creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor Emerita of Humanities. She is currently finishing a collection of stories, The Typing Lady, and Other Fictions, which will be published in 2026.
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