Former executive editor of J. P. Tarcher, she has written for Esquire, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Psychology Today, and Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture. Dr. Zweig is coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow; and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality (formerly The Holy Longing) and A Moth to the Flame: The Life Story of the Sufi Poet Rumi (a novel). She is currently writing a book about aging and the shadow.