Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest.
11 Facts About Ruth Ozeki
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Ruth Ozeki's novels have been translated into more than thirty languages.
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Ruth Ozeki teaches creative writing at Smith College where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities in the Department of English Language and Literature.
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In 1985, Ozeki moved to New York City and began working as an art director and production designer for low-budget horror movies, including Mutant Hunt and Robot Holocaust.
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The diary is discovered by a novelist named Ruth Ozeki, who becomes obsessed with discovering the girl's fate.
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In 2021, Ruth Ozeki released her fourth novel The Book of Form and Emptiness.
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From 1982 through 1985, Ruth Ozeki taught in the English department at Kyoto Sangyo University and founded an English language school in Kyoto, Japan.
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Ruth Ozeki was ordained as a Soto Zen Buddhist priest in 2010; she practices Zen Buddhism with Zoketsu Norman Fischer.
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Ruth Ozeki is the editor of the website Everyday Zen.
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Ruth Ozeki is married to the German-Canadian environmental artist Oliver Kellhammer, who teaches on the faculty of Sustainable Systems at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
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Ruth Ozeki is a nom de plume, taken from her former boyfriend's last name, and chosen to better represent her mixed-race heritage.