Helen Tworkov is the founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the first independent Buddhist magazine; and the author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers; and co-author, with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, of In Love with the World: A Monks’s Journey through the Bardos of Living and Dying. She first encountered Buddhism in Japan and Nepal during the 1960s, and has studied in both the Zen and Tibetan traditions. She began studying with Mingyur Rinpoche in 2006 and currently divides most of her time between New York and Nova Scotia. Her new book, published in April 2024, is Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America.

An excerpt of her new book is available online at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.