Amy Hollowell

Roshi Amy Hollowell is a French-American Zen teacher, poet and translator. Affiliated with one of the leading Zen lineages in the West, the White Plum Asangha, she is founder and spiritual director of Wild Flower Zen Sangha, a community of lay practitioners in France and in Portugal. A former journalist at the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times in Paris, she is the author of several poetry collections, including most recently Here We Are (Presse universitaire de Rouen et du Havre, 2015) and, with the French poet Sabine Huynh, Into the Turning: Emptyfull Poetry (Christophe Chomont Editeur, 2019). She leads Zen retreats and workshops as well as contemplative and creative writing workshops, in English and in French, throughout Europe.