Lisa loves all creatures great and small. Her essay Who Says You Can’t Get Married at the Barn? won first place for personal essay at the EQUUS Film & Arts Fest 2020 (the interview about her work is below) and her other essays have appeared in Horse Network, Manifest-Station, Ariana’s HuffPost, Elephant Journal and several literary journals and media outlets. She lives near Boston, where she writes, bikes, hikes, and rides horses. You can contact her at lisa.demasi@gmail.com and follow her on Twitter and LinkedIn.

A PARTIAL LIST OF LISA’S PUBLISHED WORK INCLUDES:

• Horse Network and EQUUS Film Fest Winnie Award Winner, 12/20, Who Says You Can’t Get Married at the Barn? 1/20
• Elephant Journal, How Hot Yoga & a Boatload of Blood led to a Miracle—A Goddamn Beautiful One., 9/20
• Horse Network, The Breakthroughs I Made in a Natural Horsemanship Clinic, 8/20
• Elephant Journal, 3 Unexpected Signs Your Manifestation is Coming Your Way, 8/20
• Horse Network, Third Generation Suffragist Rides for Women’s Equality, 7/20
• Jen Pastiloff’s The Manifest-Station, How My Disapproving Mother Fuels My Creative Expression, Summer, 2020
• Jen Pastiloff’s The Manifest-Station, No Kids, No Regrets, 12/19
• The Plaid Horse, The Breakthrough I Witnessed in the Healing Power of Horses, 12/19
• Horse Network, I Met My Hero at the EQUUS Film Fest, 12/19
• Jen Pastiloff’s The Manifest-Station, Finding Love in the Cheating, 9/19
• Writer Advice, Finding the Best Writing Coach for You, 10/18
• Wanderlust Journal, Heart-on for Horse, 10/18
• WOW! Women on Writing, My Writing Coach in the Looking Glass: Overzealous Mentor or Moneymaker? 10/18
• Machines for Freedom blog, Why I Love Bike Commuting in Boston, 6/18
• The Crux, Snowflake, print, 11/17
• Vine Leaves Literary Journal (AUS), A Collection of Vignettes from Across the Globe, (coffee table book), Grievances, print, 11/17
• Future Heritage, Why We Write, 9/17
• Fiction Southeast, This Writer’s Secret to Doing What She Loves, 8/17
• Unmasked: Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty, Anthology, The Kickass Formula that Restored My Libido, 8/20
• Ariana’s HuffPost, What the Wrong Job Can Teach You, 1/17
• Gravel Literary Journal, T-boned, 12/16
• Ariana’s HuffPost, Why Regret Is So Deliciously Fun, 12/16
• Foliate Oak Literary Journal, What More Is There to Ask?, 9/16
• Ariana’s HuffPost, Libido, 2/16
• Elephant Journal, She, Mother. Me, Daughter, 1/15
• Elephant Journal, What Happened When I Performed Reiki on My Conservative Mother, 1/15
• Elephant Journal, My Dear Friend, the Dirty, 12/14
• Shark Reef, The Subversive Writer, 7/14

GHOSTWRITTEN BLOGS FOR DELL TECHNOLOGIES

• Dell EMC InFocus Blog, Best Practices for Virtualizing Domain Controllers, Part II, 10/18
• Dell EMC InFocus Blog, Best Practices for Virtualizing Domain Controllers, Part I, 9/18
• Dell EMC InFocus Blog, Building the Modern Data Center: A Supercharged Enterprise Software-Defined Data Center Deployment (SDDC), 8/27/18
• Direct2Dell, Dell Technologies Blog, 5 Ways to Make Friends at Work, 9/17
• EMC InFocus Blog, The Year in Review: Top Trending Content of 2017, 2/17

Please visit Lisa’s blog for many more samples of her writing.

WRITER RESIDENCIES

• Awarded Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts Inc. (FCWA) One Month Writer-in-Residency, Wolff Cottage, Fairhope, Alabama, 8/18

You can contact Lisa at lisa dot demasi at gmail dot com and follow her on twitter, LinkedIn or via her website nurtureismynature.com.

You can pick up your copy of ‘Unmasked’ here.