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In 2004, Butler was a finalist<ref>[http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine_awards/searchable_database/index.aspx American Society of Magazine Editors, National Magazine Award]</ref> for a [[National Magazine Award]] for an article she wrote about applying traditional religious practices to the chaos of modern life.<ref>[http://www.psychotherapynetworker.com/populartopics/positive-psychology/518-living-on-purpose "Living on Purpose, The Seeker, the Tennis Coach and the Next Wave of Therapeutic Practice"] Psychotherapy Networker, September/October 2003.</ref> ''Best Buddhist Writing 2006'' included her first-person essay on spirituality, nature, and Mt. Tamalpais.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=F9018stFPFkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PR5 Best Buddhist Writing 2006]</ref> In 2006, the National Mental Health Association honored her with an award for research excellence. In 2007, she won a Meredith Corporation award for Creative Excellence, for a feminist memoir published in MORE magazine, on caregiving her aging parents.<ref>[http://www.more.com/4298/2670-the-good-daughter-becoming-the The Good Daughter: Becoming the Family Caregiver] More Magazine, May 2007.</ref> In 2008, she won a literary award from the Elizabeth George Foundation, administered by Hedgebrook, a writers' colony where she was a resident. <ref> http://www.hedgebrook.org/elisabethgeorgeaward.php</ref>. She has also been granted |
In 2004, Butler was a finalist<ref>[http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine_awards/searchable_database/index.aspx American Society of Magazine Editors, National Magazine Award]</ref> for a [[National Magazine Award]] for an article she wrote about applying traditional religious practices to the chaos of modern life.<ref>[http://www.psychotherapynetworker.com/populartopics/positive-psychology/518-living-on-purpose "Living on Purpose, The Seeker, the Tennis Coach and the Next Wave of Therapeutic Practice"] Psychotherapy Networker, September/October 2003.</ref> ''Best Buddhist Writing 2006'' included her first-person essay on spirituality, nature, and Mt. Tamalpais.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=F9018stFPFkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PR5 Best Buddhist Writing 2006]</ref> In 2006, the National Mental Health Association honored her with an award for research excellence. In 2007, she won a Meredith Corporation award for Creative Excellence, for a feminist memoir published in MORE magazine, on caregiving her aging parents.<ref>[http://www.more.com/4298/2670-the-good-daughter-becoming-the The Good Daughter: Becoming the Family Caregiver] More Magazine, May 2007.</ref> In 2008, she won a literary award from the Elizabeth George Foundation, administered by Hedgebrook, a writers' colony where she was a resident. <ref> http://www.hedgebrook.org/elisabethgeorgeaward.php</ref>. She has also been granted |
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writing residencies at Mesa Refuge <ref>http://www.mesarefuge.org/index.php/1998-2008residents</ref> |
writing residencies at Mesa Refuge <ref>http://www.mesarefuge.org/index.php/1998-2008residents</ref> and Blue Mountain Center <ref> http://www.bluemountaincenter.org/alumni/contact?page=2</ref> |
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== Career == |
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Katy Butler is an American journalist and writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Mother Jones, and other magazines. She regularly leads writing workshops at Esalen Institute.[citation needed]
Personal life
Born in South Africa and raised in Oxford, England and Boston, Massachusetts, Butler attended Sarah Lawrence College and holds a B.A. and an honorary M.A. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.[citation needed] She has lived for more than 20 years in Mill Valley, California, where she works as a writer, teacher, and editor.
A Buddhist for more than 25 years, Butler was lay ordained by the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh and has co-led small meditation groups.[1]
Awards
In 2004, Butler was a finalist[2] for a National Magazine Award for an article she wrote about applying traditional religious practices to the chaos of modern life.[3] Best Buddhist Writing 2006 included her first-person essay on spirituality, nature, and Mt. Tamalpais.[4] In 2006, the National Mental Health Association honored her with an award for research excellence. In 2007, she won a Meredith Corporation award for Creative Excellence, for a feminist memoir published in MORE magazine, on caregiving her aging parents.[5] In 2008, she won a literary award from the Elizabeth George Foundation, administered by Hedgebrook, a writers' colony where she was a resident. [6]. She has also been granted writing residencies at Mesa Refuge [7] and Blue Mountain Center [8]
Career
As a reporter for The San Francisco Bay Guardian and The San Francisco Chronicle in the 1980s, she covered city politics, Peoples’ Temple, the Harvey Milk and Moscone assassinations, urban affairs, and gentrification. Her AIDS reporting, in collaboration with Randy Shilts, was nominated by the Chronicle for the Pulitzer Prize.[citation needed]
Her writing has also appeared in The Pacific Sun, Salon.com, National Public Radio, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Marin Independent Journal, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Coevolution Quarterly/Whole Earth Review, and other national publications.
Butler left the Chronicle in 1994 to report and write for magazines, concentrating on literary nonfiction, personal essays and social criticism informed by psychology and Buddhism. Her writing often explores addiction, meditation, and how people transform themselves and their lives, especially at the boundary of psychology and spiritual practice.
References
- ^ Straw into Gold: The Alchemy of Memoir
- ^ American Society of Magazine Editors, National Magazine Award
- ^ "Living on Purpose, The Seeker, the Tennis Coach and the Next Wave of Therapeutic Practice" Psychotherapy Networker, September/October 2003.
- ^ Best Buddhist Writing 2006
- ^ The Good Daughter: Becoming the Family Caregiver More Magazine, May 2007.
- ^ http://www.hedgebrook.org/elisabethgeorgeaward.php
- ^ http://www.mesarefuge.org/index.php/1998-2008residents
- ^ http://www.bluemountaincenter.org/alumni/contact?page=2