Ashley Makar
Killing the Buddha editor Ashley Makar is a writer who wanders genres while deep in Yale Divinity School, where she studies 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. She repents not her trespasses through the Irish bogs of Connemara.
This Is All One Colon
Grappling with James Agee’s punctuation, one hundred years after his birth.
Wayward Sheep
More schooled than churched, she wanted to try dying to the self, to grope for the Spirit under the water, and come up in grace. It was more awkward than that.
My Holy Ghost People
When a family speaks in tongues, can an unbelieving daughter find her voice?




