Presentation to the Dalai Lama

I had the privilege of presenting the book to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in late-September in southern California....

PEN Award Ceremony Photos

The Official PEN American Center Photograph. © Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American...

P E N W I N N E R ! ! !

I am extremely pleased and deeply honored to learn that my book has won the PEN AMERICAN CENTER’S OPEN BOOK AWARD for 2010. From the judge’s note: “Thank you Canyon for your work, your journey, your bravery, your compassion – for walking the women of Tibet all the way home and around the globe....

PEN Award Ceremony

Giving my acceptance speech with the book cover image projected in the background. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American...

SKY TRAIN:
Tibetan Women on the Edge of History

This deeply resonant and absorbing narrative draws on years of groundbreaking research in a book that is at once memoir, history, and travel narrative. This timely glimpse into Tibet’s past – in the fiftieth year of exile — through the lives of four women – a visionary educator, a freedom...