Nan Fink Gefen

NAN FINK GEFEN, PhD, co-founded Tikkun magazine in the mid-1980s and has taught hundreds of students nationally as a writer, editor, and teacher of Jewish meditation. Her recent books include Clear Lake: A Novel, Discovering Jewish Meditation and Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery.

Clear Lake received the IndieFab Gold Award for general fiction. Gefen also holds a doctorate and worked for fifteen years as a psychotherapist before her writing career.

When she’s not writing, Gefen directs teacher-training programs and teaches Jewish meditation, including work she developed at Chochmat HaLev, a center she helped establish in Berkeley. In 2007 she founded Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women Over Sixty.

Nan lives in Berkeley, California.

Nan Fink Gefen’s books are published by Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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