Biography

My primary focus is personal and collective peacekeeping. I write poems to transmute chronic grief associated with the exploitation and murder of innocents in the warring culture.

“Everyone has to follow their own path and this requires a great deal of individual responsibility.”

—Lino Miele, Ashtanga Yoga: The Yoga of Breath, p. 46

Biography

Megan Hollingsworth, MS

Meg is a writer with an interdisciplinary education in applied health science and environmental studies. She is currently an East West Psychology doctoral student at California Institute of Integral Studies. Her work is deeply influenced by her Quaker upbringing, Engaged Buddhism, and faith in essential goodness. In 2012, Meg initiated the creative spiritual practice Extinction Witness to express and support complicated disenfranchised grief that she has experienced since first studying global health and environmental science in the mid-1990s.

Meg’s first book is Frog Song (October 2023), recommended for readers ages 9 and up. Her writing has been published in online journals including Kosmos Journal, Deep Times Journal, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, and Unpsychology Magazine, and in print anthologies, including LOVE: The Ultimate Answer to the Meaning of Life, What do we do about inequality? - Wicked Problems Collaborative Book I, and Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices.

Meg earned her master’s degree in environmental studies from the University of Montana. She enjoys playing haiku on purpose and lives in Bozeman with her son.

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)

Quakerism is a Christian faith grounded in direct experience of God. For more with a brief on Meg’s roots in Quaker faith and practice, please see Friends.

Engaged Buddhism

For a sample of what we mean by Engaged Buddhism, please read Rewilding, Healing, Regeneration and Transformation for the Land by Mick McEvoy, Plum Village’s Happy Farm.