About the Author

​TRACY COCHRAN has been a student of meditation and spiritual practice for almost 50 years. She is also a longtime teacher, as well as a writer, the editorial director of Parabola magazine, and the founder of the Hudson River Sangha, in New York. She teaches at the Rubin Museum, the New York Insight Meditation Center, and in schools, colleges, and at multinational corporations. Her writing has appeared in Parabola, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Psychology Today, O Magazine, New York Magazine, the Boston Review and many other publications and anthologies.