Helen Tworkov: Lotus Girl

Helen Tworkov is Tricycle’s founding editor and author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers (1989). She’s also the co-author of Turning Confusion Into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism (2014) and In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying (2019), which she wrote with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.

Jared Bland is an editor and writer who lives in Toronto and Cape Breton Island. He was formerly the publisher of McClelland & Stewart and vice president of Penguin Random House Canada, where he worked with authors such as Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Tommy Orange, Marilynne Robinson, Colm Toibin, and Anne Michaels, among many others. He has been deeply involved in Canadian arts, media, and publishing for over 15 years at institutions big and small, including The Globe and Mail, House of Anansi Press, and The Walrus.