Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of three novels: MY YEAR OF MEATS, ALL OVER CREATION, A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING, which was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize, and THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir, THE FACE: A Time Code, and the documentary film, Halving the Bones. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foun­dation and teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.

Books by Ruth Ozeki

The Book of Form and Emptiness

by Ruth Ozeki - Fiction, Magical Realism

THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS is a brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things.

A Tale for the Time Being

by Ruth Ozeki - Fiction

Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history and myth, A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.