Marsha Goluboff Low

A few years after graduating from The University of Pennsylvania, Marsha Low left home in 1974 to spend eighteen years as an Ananda Marga yogic nun, living in countries throughout the Middle and Far East, Australasia, and Eastern Europe. After undergoing training with the organization, she taught meditation and yoga, opened schools, and performed social work and relief projects. Often skirting the law to further her organization's mission and raise money for it, she came face to face with--among other thing--gun-toting border guards in Cyprus, the Russian KGB, and misunderstnading and rejection as a female spiritual teacher in the Middle East. Low returned to the United States in 1992 and began writing down her experiences shortly thereafter, those early attempts brief descriptions of mostly humorous events. "The Orange Robe" thus went through many incarnations before finally appearing fully formed in 2011. Low teaches English as a Second Language to adults at colleges in the Philadelphia area, lives outside Philadelphia with her husband, David, and is presently working on another book, this one fiction.