Dominique Townsend is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism and the Jey Tsong Khapa Associate Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. Currently, Townsend's research is focused on a book about dreams and dreaming in Tibetan Buddhism, All this is Dreamlike, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Her previous books include A Buddhist Sensibility (Columbia University Press, 2021), and the co-edited, Longing to Awaken, (University of Virginia Press, 2024). She has also published a book of poems and a children's book.