Catherine Gammon

Morning and Evening Zazen and Dharma Study
practicing in the Soto Zen tradition of San Francisco Zen Center

Meeting in the Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
led by Catherine Gammon

Catherine Gammon is a Soto Zen priest, ordained in 2005 by Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. Before beginning residential Zen training at San Francisco Zen Center’s Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm, Catherine served on the MFA faculty of the University of Pittsburgh. Her new story collection, The Gunman and the Carnival, comes out in 2024 from Baobab Press. Catherine is author of the novels Isabel Out of the Rain, Sorrow, China Blue, and The Martyrs, The Lovers, and of the early story collection Beauty and the Beast. Her shorter fiction has appeared in literary journals for many years. Since serving as Shuso (head student) at Green Dragon Temple/Green Gulch Farm in 2010, Catherine has led retreats and given teachings in Zen and writing in the U.K., in Brooklyn, in Pittsburgh, in Massachusetts, and at SFZC’s Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. She lives again in Pittsburgh.

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