About Becky

Becky Thompson Ph.D. MFA is a scholar, antiracism activist, poet, and senior level yoga teacher (RYT-500). She is the author/editor of thirteen books including Teaching with Tenderness, Survivors on the Yoga Mat: Stories for those Healing from Trauma, and Zero is the Whole I Fall into at Night.  She recently co-edited This Unruly Witness: June Jordan’s legacy (Haymarket Press). From 2015-2019 she was a human rights activist in Lesvos, Greece, where she assisted people seeking asylum, documented human rights violations, and taught writing workshops. She has taught yoga and healing workshops in China, Thailand, Greece and the United States. Becky’s writing has been recognized with honors from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association for University Women, the Ford Foundation, Political Research Associates, the Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Books on Human Rights, and the Creative Justice Chapbook Press Poetry Prize.

Photo credit: Laurie Glassman.