Susan Piver is the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including The Hard Questions; the award-winning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life; The Wisdom of a Broken Heart; Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation; and The Four Noble Truths of Love: Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships. Her latest is The Buddhist Enneagram: Nine Paths to Warriorship. Susan has an international reputation as a skillful meditation teacher. She has given talks everywhere, including Procter & Gamble, Google Paris, Google London, and Harvard University.A student of Buddhism since 1993, Susan graduated from a Buddhist seminary in 2004. In 2012, she founded The Open Heart Project, the world's largest online-only dharma center. The Open Heart Project offers meditation classes, virtual retreats, and community gatherings. In 2018, a publishing imprint, Lionheart Press, was created by her and Crystal Gandrud to offer books that merge Buddhism with everyday life.