poet & writer

Deborah Bowman, Ph.D., is a retired psychologist and served as a professor of Mindfulness-based Transpersonal Counseling and Wilderness Therapy at Naropa University. ​

She is the author of The Female Buddha: Discovering the Heart of Liberation and Love and other books. She is co-author with artist Melinda Canino of tangled thicket: seasons of haiku. ​

The practice of haiku weaves together her passion for all things wild, from the flight of a finch to the vulnerable and supple human heart.