Welcome

Susan Moon is a writer and teacher as well as the editor of Turning Wheel magazine. She is the author of The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi, a humor book about an imaginary Zen master, and editor of Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism. Her short stories and personal essays have been published widely. She is the mother of two grown sons.

Sue has been a Zen student since 1976, practicing in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi at Berkeley Zen Center, Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, Green Gulch Farm, and now with Zoketsu Norman Fischer's Everyday Zen sangha. She has received “lay entrustment,” a lay version of dharma transmission, from Norman.

Writing workshops

Beginning and experienced writers have been coming to Sue's writing workshops for more than ten years to “stir up the mud at the bottom of the lake.” To find out about upcoming worshops, see the Workshops page.

Photography

Over the last few years Sue has been producing calendars and large digital prints of urban and rural landscapes. Her favorite subjects include the old Oakland train station, a dock in the Adirondacks, and a Cape Cod dune shack. Go to Photography to see her pictures.

Essays

Some of Sue's essays are available online in their entirety:

See all essays in the Writing section.

Who is Human Bean?!

This knitted guy
Has one blue eye
On each side of his nose.

His legs and arms
Are knitted, too,
And so he has no toes.