Helen Tworkov is founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the first independent Buddhist magazine, and author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers. She first encountered Buddhism in Asia in the 1960s and has studied in both the Zen and Tibetan traditions. A student of the Tibetan master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, she assisted him in the writing of In Love With The World and Turning Confusion into Clarity. She divides her time between New York and Nova Scotia.
