Sandy Boucher
# Sandy Boucher

Sandy Boucher is an American writer, Buddhist, and feminist. She lives in Oakland, California.

## Life and career

Boucher received a master's degree from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Her degree was in the history and phenomenology of religion. For a time, she was a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka.

Boucher has been a contributor to the publications Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and Lion's Roar, along with publishing articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Sun, and Writer's Digest.

In 1975 Boucher was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, an artists' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

## Published books

* Assaults & Rituals: Stories (1975)
* The Notebooks of Leni Clare, and Other Short Stories (The Crossing Press feminist series) (1982)
* Heartwomen: An Urban Feminist's Odyssey Home (1982)
* Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism (1993)
* Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism (1997)
* Discovering Kwan Yin: Buddhist Goddess of Compassion (1999)
* Hidden Spring: A Buddhist Woman Confronts Cancer (2000)
* Dancing in the Dharma: The Life and Teachings of Ruth Denison (2005)
