Bonnie Nadzam

Bonnie Nadzam is an American writer and Zen Buddhist priest and chaplain. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in Harp­er's, Orion Magazine, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and many other journals and magazines. Her first novel, Lamb, was the recipient of The Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, trans­lated into several languages, and made into an award-winning inde­pendent film. Her second novel, Lions, was a finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award in Fiction. She is also coauthor of Love in the Anthro­pocene with environmental ethicist Dale Jamieson. She is currently associate director of Ethics, Culture, and Religion with the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard University.
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