Joy Brennan is a student of early Yogācāra thought as it appears in Sanskrit and Chinese texts. She was a 2022 recipient of the Robert H.N. Ho Foundation Research Fellowship in Buddhist Studies for work on her book, Mind Only on the Path: Centering Liberation in Yogācāra Buddhist Thought, which is under contract with Columbia University Press. She is an associate professor of religious studies at Kenyon College and head teacher at the Kokosing Zen Center in Gambier, Ohio.