Carney, Eido Frances

Eido Frances Carney is the teacher and founder of Olympia Zen Center in Washington. She received Dharma Transmission from Niho Tetsumei Roshi of Entsuji Temple, Kurashiki, in 1997, in lineage with the hermit priest-poet Ryokan. She has a master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University and is the author of Kakurenbo Or the Whereabouts of Zen Priest Ryokan, and editor of Receiving the Marrow, Teachings on Dogen by Soto Zen Women Priests. She publishes fiction and poetry and is an exhibited painter.