Courtney Seiberling is a writer and yoga teacher in Los Angeles. She is the author of The Young Writer’s Fiction Workbook, The Young Writer’s Poetry Workbook, the short story collection Five Leaves Left, and the philosophy book Yoga’s Yamas and Niyamas. Her essays and short stories have been featured in On Being, Creation Magazine, and The Counterclaim Review. She was the 2025 Idyllwild Arts Fiction Fellow, and her first novel will be published with She Writes Press in Fall 2027.