Beata Grant is Professor Emerita of Chinese and Religious Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her previous books include The Red Brush: Women Writers of Imperial China (with Wilt Idema), Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China, Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang (with Wilt Idema), and Zen Echoes: Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Chan Masters.