A poet and a visual artist, Ana earned an M.A. in Mental Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and an M.A. from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.
Ana has published two poetry chapbooks, creates interactive community poetry installations, and writes poetry reviews.
POETRY
ART
Ana created two community-based collaborative installation projects in the Catskills, merging poetry and visual arts. She has shown and sold her work at galleries in MA and NY and writes visual art reviews.
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A certified OM meditation teacher, Ana studied with David Nichtern (in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche) and Cyndi Lee (in the lineage of Gelek Rinpoche). She is also certified in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction by the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. Ana leads mindfulness meditation sessions with both children and adults, and enjoys reading widely in the Tibetan and Zen Buddhist traditions.
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MEDITATION
A San Francisco native who also grew up in Rhode Island, Ana is happy to also have spent time in her parents’ countries of origin: Taiwan and Portugal.
She enjoys spending as much time as possible in NYC’s Central Park during the school year and gardening in the spring and summer in the Catskills with her husband.
Ana lives with twin teenagers and their beautiful cat sister Minnie.
