Leza Lowitz

Leza Lowitz is a best-selling author who lives in Japan with her husband and their son. She owns Sun and Moon Yoga, a popular yoga studio in Tokyo, and travels around the world to teach yoga, mindfulness, and writing workshops. Lowitz has published 20 books, most recently a young adult novel, "Up from the Sea" (Crown/Penguin Random House, 2016), a memoir about her quest for motherhood across two continents, to decades, and two thousand yoga poses, "In Search of the Sun", and an epic YA...See more

Leza Lowitz is a best-selling author who lives in Japan with her husband and their son. She owns Sun and Moon Yoga, a popular yoga studio in Tokyo, and travels around the world to teach yoga, mindfulness, and writing workshops. Lowitz has published 20 books, most recently a young adult novel, "Up from the Sea" (Crown/Penguin Random House, 2016), a memoir about her quest for motherhood across two continents, to decades, and two thousand yoga poses, "In Search of the Sun", and an epic YA adventure novel about a female ninja, "Jet Black & the Ninja Wind." Her awards include the APALA Asian American Award for Young Adult Literature, an SCBWI Multicultural Literature work-in-progress Honor, a PEN fiction Award, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, the California Arts Council, and the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Translation Award from Columbia University. Four of Lowitz's books have been #1 best-sellers on amazon. Her classic "Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By," has been translated into four languages, and is one of the highest-selling poetry books on amazon. She has also co-authored a popular book on Sanskrit, "Sacred Sanskrit Words," with Reema Datta. Lowitz has presented at the Bali Spirit Festival, the UBUD Writer's Festival in Bali, the Sharjah International Book Fair (UAE), the Hong Kong International Book Fair, the AWP Conference, Yogafest Japan, Yoga Aid Japan, Organic Life Tokyo Festival, Yoga Life Nagoya, and the Japan Writers Conference. See less