Lisa has been a paparazzi photographer in London, an aid worker in Kenya, a script doctor in LA, and a literary publicist at HarperCollins in Toronto.

Have Mercy On Us, her debut book, won the W.S. Porter Prize for short story collections. Her work has appeared published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, The Idaho Review, and others. She holds a BA in Philosophy from The University of Western Ontario, a graduate degree in Portrait Photography from The London Institute, and an MFA from the University of Memphis. She has lived all over the world, but currently resides in Southern California, where she has taught fiction writing at Chapman University.

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Writer, teacher. Author of Have Mercy On Us, winner of the WS Porter Prize for Short Fiction.