Crystal Gandrud

Crystal Gandrud is an experimental writer, acquiring editor, and publisher. She is the co-founder (with Susan Piver) of Lionheart Press, offering Buddhist wisdom for everyday mystics. She is also the founder of The Owl Circus, an independent press exploring the nexus of art and alchemy. With visual artist Nuala Clarke, she has shown installation literature on three continents. Their feminine-centric commentary on the slogans of Atișa, Radiating Outward, Incrementally: A Manual, was released in 2024. Gandrud holds a Conservatory Classical Theatre BFA and an Experimental Fiction MFA. She has been a practicing Vajrayana Buddhist in the Kagyü-Nyingma tradition for 25 years.