A Biography... of Sorts

A leap from crustaceans to statesmen landed Lisa in Washington, DC where she quickly received a fine for riding in the Senator’s Only elevator. She holds the world’s record for Number of Hours Wandering Lost in a Senate Office Building (five). Recently, she delayed a Presidential motorcade while attempting to parallel park on a busy one-way street in the nation’s Capitol which resulted in a short feature on the evening news.

Her writing career began in earnest in 1985 as a feature writer for the San Jose Mercury News. She was a contributing editor to San Francisco Focus Magazine in Heath and Medicine; her work now appears in newspapers and magazines across the nation. She is the author of Capital Baby, a resource book that spawned a monthly column in Washington Parent magazine, and the novels Cruise to Retribution and Nothing to Lose.

In 2008, Lisa was awarded a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the Johns Hopkins University. Her essays and fiction are widely published.

Lisa keeps her diplomas over her washing machine, Hershey's chocolate in her nightstand, and is known for eating ice cream out of the container with a fork. She is never without a copy of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style because “you never know when you’re going to need to conjugate.”