Helen Tworkov is the founder of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and the author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers and co-author, with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, of Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism. She first encountered Buddhism in Japan and Nepal during the 1960s, and has studied in both the Zen and Tibetan traditions. She began studying with Mingyur Rinpoche in 2006 and currently divides most of her time between New York and Nova Scotia.
