BRIGID LOWRY is the author of eight books for young adults, including best sellers Guitar Highway Rose and Juicy Writing: Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers. She has an MA in Creative Writing and has taught writing at all levels, including at Curtin University. She spent seven years living in a Theravadin Buddhist community and is a long-time Zen student in the Diamond Sangha tradition. Her interests include social justice, creativity, travel, spirituality, and food. Her work explores what it is to be alive in the twenty-first century: this fertile, crazy, wonderful, scary moment in time.

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