Ruth Ozeki

An interview with Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being. For more interviews and inspiration, please go to: http://www.authormagazine.org/

Part two of our live interview with Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being. For more interviews and inspiration, please go to: http://www.authormagazine.org/

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into 11 languages and published in 14 countries. Her most recent work, A Tale for the Time-Being (2013), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and will be published in over thirty countries. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth ordained in 2010 and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation.