The Buddha and the Bard:  Where Shakespeare''s Stage Meets Buddhist Scriptures 

About Lauren ShufranMandala Publishing

Insight Editions is a publisher of illustrated books on photography music and popular culture. Elegant and informative their books showcase the best of art photography and design in exquisite presentations of the bookmaker's craft. They are located in San Rafael CA.Lauren Shufran holds an MA (English) and an MFA (Creative Writing: Poetry) from San Francisco State University and a PhD (Early Modern British Literature) from UC Santa Cruz.  In her eight years of PhD candidacy at UCSC she taught a wide range of courses from creative writing to Biblical Poetics in Renaissance England to The English Sonnet Sequence; but Shakespeare was the course she taught most consistently. She discovered yoga meditation and mindfulness practices while writing her dissertation.  Laurens first major publication was a book of poetry called Inter Arma (Fence Books 2013) which won the Motherwell Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan University Press) as well as in Postmodern Culture The Los Angeles Review of Books Emerge: An Anthology of Writing by Lambda Fellows and elsewhere over the years. Shes also had scholarly essays published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals.  Lauren presently works as a ghostwriter and content strategist for a startup in San Francisco.