Ethan Nichtern

Ethan Nichtern is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, and the author of The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path (Farrar, Straus and Giroux - North Point, 2015). The Road Home was selected as one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2015, and was named as one of 9 Books That Define 2015 by Tech Insider. His next book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Dharma of The Princess Bride will be released in September 2017.

Nichtern is also the author of One City: A Declaration of Interdependence (Wisdom Publications 2007) as well as various poetry and fiction. He is also the founder of the Interdependence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to secular Buddhist study as it applies to activism, arts and media projects, and Western psychology. Nichtern has taught meditation and Buddhist psychology classes and retreats across North America since 2002. He is based in New York City.

Nichtern has discussed the relevance of Buddhism in the 21st century on ABC/Yahoo News, CNN with Rick Sanchez, NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin, Dan Harris of ABC News, Vogue.com with Sally Singer, in the New York Times and other news outlets.

Nichtern is the son of musician/composer David Nichtern, who is also a Buddhist teacher, and Janice Ragland, a painter who later became a psychotherapist. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1978 and raised in New York City. On June 18, 2016 he married Marissa Dutton, covered in the Vows section of the New York Times on July 10, 2016.