Mag Dimond

Mag Dimond is the award-winning author of Bowing to Elephants, Tales of a Travel Junkie (which hit #1 in five countries on the day it launched and won Best Indie Biographies & Memoirs from Kirkus). Her book has been compared to Eat, Pray, Love in professional reviews and has received accolades from many thought leaders in the mindfulness space, including Jack Kornfield. Mag has been a world traveler since age 11, living with her mother in Italy for three years. She has traveled extensively in Europe and the US, as well as Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Galapagos, Guatemala, India, Japan, Kenya, Peru, Thailand, and Vietnam. After a career teaching writing to college students in San Francisco and Taos, Dimond volunteers as a writing tutor at 826 Valencia, an esteemed literacy program by David Eggers. In addition to her loving care for animals and people (as a 10-year hospice volunteer), Mag is a philanthropist who ran the Peter & Madeleine Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts (in San Francisco and Taos). Mag is a practicing Buddhist and dedicated member of Spirit Rock Meditation Center north of San Francisco. To get a free copy of Mag’s 21-day meditation challenge ($47 value), visit here.