Helen Tworkov Author

Helen Tworkov is founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the first independent Buddhist magazine, and author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers (North Point Press; 1989). She first encountered Buddhism in Asia in the 1960s and has studied in both the Zen and Tibetan traditions. A student of the Tibetan master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, she assisted him in the writing of In Love With The World (Spiegel and Grau; 2019) and Turning Confusion into Clarity (Shambhala Publications; 2014). She divides her time between New York and Nova Scotia.