Bretigne Shaffer's Biography
Member Info
Los Angeles
Married
Mar 2009
Bretigne Shaffer spent nearly ten years as a journalist in Asia. She is the author of "Memoirs of a Gaijin", "Why Mommy Loves the State", and "Urban Yogini: A Superhero Who Can't Use Violence". She contributed to the anthology "Why Peace", and her articles appear on LewRockwell.com and Barron's. She is currently working on a book on prenatal yoga. Bretigne lives with her husband and two children in the Los Angeles area.
Influences
Banana Yoshimoto, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Ayn Rand, Joss Whedon, Natalie Goldberg, J. Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, various Buddhist and yoga/vedic teachers and thinkers, Ray Bradbury, J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, Kenzaburo Oe.
Upcoming Works
An instructional book for prenatal yoga; More in the continuing adventures of Urban Yogini; More short stories; Another memoir-style book titled "My Last Day of Freedom."
Agents
None at present
Recommended Links
Publishers
Lulu.com
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks."”
—Will Durant
About Bretigne
Bretigne Shaffer spent nearly ten years as a journalist in Asia. She is the author of "Memoirs of a Gaijin", "Why Mommy Loves the State", and "Urban Yogini: A Superhero Who Can't Use Violence". She contributed to the anthology "Why Peace", and her articles...