Martha Reeves

Martha Reeves (born 1941) is an Anglican solitary (or anchorite) under vows to Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. A graduate of the Madeira School (Class of 1959), she is also a Stanford educated professor of theology who has written numerous articles and a series of books under the name "Maggie Ross" (most notably The Fire Of Your Life and the two-volume Silence: A User's Guide), as well as translated a number of Carthusian Novice Conferences. Reeves, at one time Desmond Tutu's spiritual director, was Bell Distinguished Professor in Anglican and Ecumenical Studies appointed to the Departments of Philosophy and Theology, Kendall College of Arts and Science, University of Tulsa. In March 2008, she donated 'silence' to the Museum of Curiosity.

Reeves lives in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

• The Gasteropod Maggie Ross, Barrie & Rockliff (1968) ISBN 0140030581
• The Fire of Your LifeMaggie Ross, Seabury Books (2007) ISBN 1-59627-051-9
• Pillars of Flame: Power, Priesthood, and Spiritual Maturity by Maggie Ross, Seabury Books (1992, & 2007) ISBN 1-59627-064-0
• Seasons of Death and Life: A Wilderness MemoirMaggie Ross, Harpercollins(1990) ISBN 0-06-067024-X
• The Fountain & the Furnace: The Way of Tears and Fire by Maggie Ross, Paulist Press (1987)ISBN 0809128403
• Writing the Icon of the Heart Maggie Ross, BRF (2011), ISBN 978-1-84101-878-2
• Silence: A User's Guide: Part 1: Process, Maggie Ross, Wipf & Stock/Darton, Longman, & Todd (2014), ISBN 978-0232531480
• Silence: A User's Guide: Part 2: Application, Maggie Ross, Wipf & Stock/Darton, Longman, & Todd (2018), ISBN 978-0232533484
• '(translator) 'The Way of Silent Love: Carthusian Novice Conferences', A Carthusian, Cistercian Publications / Darton, Longman, & Todd (1993), ISBN 978-0879076498
• '(translator) 'The Wound of Love: A Carthusian Miscellany', A Carthusian, Cistercian Publications / Darton, Longman, & Todd (1994), ASIN B00HXFPG3Q
• '(translator) 'The Call of Silent Love: Carthusian Novice Conferences', A Carthusian, Cistercian Publications / Darton, Longman, & Todd (1995), ISBN 978-0852446713