Karen Maezen Miller

Karen Maezen Miller is a wife, mother, and a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, California. She is also a speaker, retreat leader and author, writing about spirituality in everyday life. Her most recent book is Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden (New World Library, May 2014), and she has also written Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life (New World Library, 2010) and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood (Shambhala, 2006). As well, her writing is included in several anthologies. Karen Maezen Miller lives with her husband and daughter in Sierra Madre, California.