Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the bestselling author of four novels: “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” winner of the UK’s 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction; “My Year of Meats; All Over Creation”; and “A Tale for the Time Being,” which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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 a professor emerita of English language and literature at Smith College.