Steve Kanji Ruhl

Steve Kanji Ruhl was ordained a Zen Buddhist minister through the Zen Peacemaker Order. He is the author of Appalachian Zen, winner of the 2023 Gold Prize for Memoir in the Nautilus Book Awards; Enlightened Contemporaries; and two volumes of poems. He received his MDiv degree at Harvard Divinity School and has been a speaker at Harvard’s Center for World Religions, Yale Divinity School, the Omega Institute, and elsewhere. A Buddhist adviser at Yale University and faculty member of the Shogaku Zen Institute, Ruhl also teaches independently through his Touch the Earth cyber-sangha. He lives in western Massachusetts. His website is www.stevekanjiruhl.com.