Bonnie Nadzam

Bonnie is a Zen Buddhist priest and interfaith chaplain, and currently serves as Associate Director of Ethics, Culture and Religion at Harvard University's Animal Law & Policy Program.

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Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Harper's, Granta, Alaska Quarterly Review, Orion Magazine, The Iowa Review, and many others. Her first novel, Lamb, was the recipient of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and made into an award-winning independent film. Her second novel, Lions, was a PEN Literary Fiction finalist. She co-authored Love in the Anthropocene with Environmental Ethicist Dale Jamieson.

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Her next book is a work of nonfiction; The Magpie Spoke to Me: How the Stories We Tell Shape Our World, is forthcoming from Shambhala Publications in November 2026.