Sandy Boucher
American writer
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Sandy Boucher is an American writer, Buddhist, and feminist. She lives in Oakland, California.
Life and career
Boucher received a master's degree from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Her degree was in the history and phenomenology of religion.[1] For a time, she was a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka.[1] Boucher has been a contributor to the publications Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and Lion's Roar,[2][3] along with publishing articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Sun, and Writer's Digest.[4][5][6] In 1975, Boucher was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, an artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.[1]
Published books
- Assaults & Rituals: Stories (1975)
- The Notebooks of Leni Clare, and Other Short Stories (The Crossing Press feminist series) (1982)
- Heartwomen: An Urban Feminist's Odyssey Home (1982)
- Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism (1993)[7]
- Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism (1997)[8][9][10][11][12][13]
- Discovering Kwan Yin: Buddhist Goddess of Compassion (1999)[14][15]
- Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer (2000)[16][17][18][19]
- Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison (2005)[20]
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