Gail Sher is a highly accomplished poet, writer, teacher, and psychotherapist based in Emeryville, CA. With an extensive body of work that includes over thirty books of poetry, six book-length haiku sequences, three books on writing as a practice, and a book on bread-making, Gail's literary contributions have been featured in numerous literary journals and have garnered awards in both the United States and Japan.
Having received lay ordination from Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1970, Gail Sher brings her deep Zen practice to her writing and teaching. With over a decade of experience practicing Zen at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and San Francisco City Center, she now resides in Emeryville, where she continues to write and provide weekly online dharma instruction on Zen practice for lay people.
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