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A Biography Of Sorts
 Lisa K. Friedman originally intended to be a marine biologist. She spent one summer on a trawler scooping up clams and other unidentifiable clumps of mucosa from the shallow shoals of the Atlantic and then swore off marine science for good. She remains proud of her status, however, of being the only student on the trawler who did not share the contents of her stomach with the class.
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 capital 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 Nothing to Lose, a mainstream suspense novel.
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.”
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