Andy Couturier
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Andy Couturier (born June 3, 1964) is an American author and winner of the 2017 Nautilus Book Award, Gold, in Green Living/Sustainability.[1] His books include Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer (Ulysses Press, 2005),[2] A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance (Stone Bridge Press, 2010),[3] and The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan (North Atlantic Books, 2017).[4] The Abundance of Less is a revised and updated edition of his previous work. His essays and articles on ecology, sustainable living, and the problems inherent with nuclear power have appeared in The Japan Times,[5] North American Review,[6] Adbusters, Kyoto Journal,[7] the Oakland Tribune, and Creative Nonfiction.
He was born in New York City, and grew up in Washington D.C. and Chicago. He lived in Japan for four years working as a teacher, a journalist and researching Japanese aesthetics. He is the founder and creative director for a private creative writing school, The Opening,[8] which offers courses in Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Oakland, internationally, and online.
