Katharine Dion

Katharine Dion is a writer and Buddhist eco-chaplain devoted to creating artistic and experiential spaces for people to connect with their deepest feelings in service of a more compassionate world. She is the author of the novel, The Dependents, which has been translated into four languages. Katharine is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an ordained lay practitioner in the Soto Zen lineage. At the Mesa Refuge, she worked on a book about grief that is a guide to becoming a chaplain to oneself and others in order to transform our relationship to the Earth.