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Killing the Buddha was founded in November of 2000 by Peter Manseau, Jeff Sharlet, and Jeremy Brothers. Since then, it has won an Utne Independent Press Award, received various press and praise, and published Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, which was named one of Publishers Weekly's best religion books of 2004.

KtB today is a loose affiliation of writers, artists, and editors including but not limited to...  
 

Editors

Peter Manseau
Peter Manseau has worked as a truck driver, house builder, and one of the world's last Yiddish typesetters. He is coauthor of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, and author of Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and their Son. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Laurel Snyder
Laurel Snyder is a poet, essayist, Mistress of a Fine Art, and professional Jew. By day she works for Hillel and by night she scribbles with wild abandon for such publications as BUST, Creative Loafing, Utne, and the Iowa Review. Her life is lived daily online at jewishyirishy.com and you should pay her a visit.

Paul W. Morris
Paul Morris was an editor at Viking Penguin and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review before becoming a freelance gun for hire. He's killed time at Entertainment Weekly and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia staring into the abyss, but nothing stared back. He is currently the Director of Marketing and Special Projects at BOMB Magazine, based in Brooklyn, New York.

Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet is coauthor of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible. He has written about religion and politics for Harper's, New York, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Baffler, and other publications. He is a member of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, where he edits The Revealer.

Designer

Jeremy Brothers
Jeremy Brothers has worked as a freelance writer/movie critic, strung for the Associated Press and was a glorious failure as a Federal Student Loan Advisor. He hails from Tewksbury, Massachusetts, former carnation capital of the world.

Contributing Editors

Irina Reyn
Irina Reyn discovered the secret of eternal life at an early age. This allowed her to dabble in various heretical activities such as working in book publishing and network news, stage managing on Off-off Broadway, receiving a master's degree in Russian literature, and generally saving the human race. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in various national publications and anthologies. She lives in Brooklyn.

Patton Dodd
Patton Dodd is the author of the memoir My Faith So Far. He is also a ghost writer, music and movie reviewer, doctoral student in religion and literature at Boston University, and husband. His writing has appeared in several newspapers and magazines. Currently he spends his days researching and watching Hollywood Bible epics, of which there are far, far too many.

Jeff Wilson
Jeff is a Unitarian-Universalist and Buddhist, which means he makes Charlie Brown look tough and decisive by comparison. A refugee from New York City and author of The Buddhist Guide to New York, he is currently working on a Ph.D. in American Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. To alleviate his guilt over killing the Buddha, he also serves as a contributing editor and columnist for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.