Dani Shapiro’s books include Black & White, and Family History, Slow Motion and most recently, Devotion. Her writings have appeared in The New Yorker, Elle, and O: The Oprah Magazine among other publications. She lives in Connecticut.

Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D., is a co-founding teacher (with Jack Kornfield) at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre. She is the bestselling author of five books, most recently Happiness Is an Inside Job.

Michael Krasny, author of Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Quest, is the award-winning host of NPR/KQED’s Forum, an English professor at San Francisco State University, and a widely published scholar and critic. He lives in Marin County.