Ruth Ozeki Author

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of four novels: My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, A Tale for the Time Being – which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages – and The Book of Form and Emptiness, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022. Her non-fiction work includes the documentary film Halving the Bones and the short memoir, Timecode of a Face. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.