Kimberley Snow, Ph.D. is uniquely qualified to author Writing Yourself Awake. After graduate school and teaching literature and writing at University of California, Santa Barbara, she moved to a Tibetan Retreat Center in Northern California where for the next six years she studied Buddhist psychology, edited dharma books, and also worked as a chef. These experiences are described in her memoir, In Buddha's Kitchen: Cooking, Being Cooked and Other Adventures in a Retreat Center (Shambhala). Returning to Santa Barbara, she began teaching workshops which increasingly involved combining writing an...