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.^[1] For a time, she was a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka.^[1]

Boucher has been a contributor to the publications Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and Lion's Roar,^[2][3] along with publishing articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Sun, and Writer's Digest.^[4][5][6]

In 1975 Boucher was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, an artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.^[1]

Published books

• Assaults & Rituals: Stories (1975)
• The Notebooks of Leni Clare, and Other Short Stories (The Crossing Press feminist series) (1982)
• Heartwomen: An Urban Feminist's Odyssey Home (1982)
• Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism (1993)^[7]
• Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism (1997)^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]}
• Discovering Kwan Yin: Buddhist Goddess of Compassion (1999)^[14][15]
• Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer (2000)^{[16][17][18][19]}
• Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison (2005)^[20]