Mark Matousek, MA, is an award-winning memoirist, teacher, and speaker whose work focuses on transformative writing for personal, professional, and spiritual development.

He is the founder of The Seekers Forum, an online community for writing and self-inquiry, as well as the author of eight books including international bestseller Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story… When You’re Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living… Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life… and Writing To Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation, and Self-Discovery. 

A featured blogger for PsychologyToday.com, he collaborated with Ram Dass on his book Still Here, assisted Sogyal Rinpoche on The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and has contributed to numerous anthologies and publications, including the New Yorker, Details, Harper’s Bazaar, The Chicago Tribune, and O: The Oprah Magazine.  

A MacDowell Fellow and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Mark is a founding member of V-Men (with Eve Ensler), a campaign devoted to ending violence against women and girls, and is on the faculty of numerous learning institutions around the world. 

He offers workshops in self-inquiry and personal development internationally, using his “Writing to Awaken” method, which has helped thousands of people around the globe