Founders

Peter Manseau
Peter Manseau has worked as a truck driver, house builder, and one of the world's last Yiddish typesetters. He is coauthor, with Jeff Sharlet, of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible (2004), and author of Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and their Son (2005) and the forthcoming novel, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two daughters.

Jeff Sharlet
Jeff Sharlet is coauthor, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible (2004) and author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper, 2008). Jeff is also a contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone, and an associate research scholar at the New York University Center for Religion and Media. He puts his faith in books.

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 but a transcendent designer of this Killing the Buddha web site. He hails from Tewksbury, Massachusetts, former carnation capital of the world.

Editors

Ashley Makar
Ashley Makar is a writer who wanders genres and repents not her trespasses through the Irish bogs of Connemara. She’s about to foray into the bog of Yale Divinity School to study religion, literature and whatever metaphorical theology she can get her hands on. She has taught Middle Eastern literature and religion at Hofstra University and published essays in The Birmingham News, American Book Review, and Search.

Meera Subramanian
Meera Subramanian writes about culture and the environment for The New York Times, Audubon, Salon, Grist, Search, and others. Based in Brooklyn, she seeks out the wild world hidden within the urban landscape and can be seen sneaking around the city with binoculars as she works on a book about the peregrine falcons of New York City. Visit her at www.meerasub.org

Marissa Dennis
Marissa Dennis is a Ph.D. student in the media, culture and communication program at NYU, where she is studying the role of the medical interpreter in New York hospitals. With a background in cultural studies, she spent several years in Latin America studying cross-cultural issues in mental health and sexuality. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and is a great salsa dancer.

Contributing Editors

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. Pay her a visit at jewishyirishy.com.

Paul W. Morris
Paul W. 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. His work has appeared in several anthologies and numerous magazines. He is currently the Director of Marketing and Special Projects at BOMB Magazine, based in Brooklyn, New York.

Irina Reyn
Irina Reyn discovered the secret of eternal life at an early age, which allowed her to dabble in various heretical activities from stage managing on Off-off Broadway to receiving a master's degree in Russian literature. She is author of the novel What Happened to Anna K, and 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.