Natalie Goldberg is the author of sixteen books, including her just released Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage to the Heart and Homeland of Haiku. Her other books include The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, This Zigzag Life, and Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home. Natalie’s bestselling Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within sold a million and a half copies, has been translated into 20 languages, and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this country. Natalie has been painting as long as she has written and her book, Living Color: Painting, Writing and the Bones of Seeing, describes painting as her second art form.

Natalie has led seminars on writing as a practice for the last thirty years. People from around the world attend her life-changing workshops and she has earned a reputation as a great teacher.