Claire B. Willis is a lay Buddhist chaplain ordained by Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, and a graduate of the Episcopal Divinity School. She focuses on contemplative practices for end-of-life care and has worked in hospice for many years. As a student of Koshin Paley Ellison, a founding teacher at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, she coauthored Opening to Grief (Red Wheel/Weiser, 2020). Her passion is the use of poetry to rejuvenate, inspire, recover, and enlighten.