
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of four 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 a memoir, The Face: A Time Code, and the documentary film, Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation. She is now Professor Emerita of English Language & Literature at Smith College, where she was the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.