Sandy Boucher
Sandy Boucher is an American writer, Buddhist, and feminist. She lives in Oakland, California.
Life and career
Boucher received a master's degree from the Graduate [Theological Union] in Berkeley, California. Her degree was in the history and phenomenology of religion. For a time, she was a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka. Boucher has been a contributor to the publications Tricycle: [The Buddhist Review] and Lion's Roar, along with publishing articles in the San [Francisco Chronicle], The Sun, and Writer's Digest. In 1975, Boucher was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, an artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.Published books
- Assaults & Rituals: Stories
- The Notebooks of Leni Clare, and Other Short Stories
- Heartwomen: An Urban Feminist's Odyssey Home
- Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism
- Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism
- Discovering Kwan Yin: Buddhist Goddess of Compassion
- Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer
- ''Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison''