Lisa publishes essays on the writing life, sex and relationships, and her love for horses and cowboy country. Her essays have been picked up by Lexington, Kentucky’s Horse Network, yogi Jen P’s Manifest-Station, Ariana’s HuffPost, and another appeared in the IPPY-award-winning anthology “Unmasked: Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty.” She lives near Boston, where she bikes, hikes, rides and edits technology blogs for the CTO of Hitachi Vantara.

She is pitching her memoir “Calamity Becomes Her: Love, Loss and a Healthy Dose of Overcoming Adversity” to literary agents and is at work on the sequel.

A PARTIAL LIST OF LISA’S PUBLISHED WORK INCLUDES:

• Jen Pastiloff’s The Manifest-Station, How My Disapproving Mother Fuels My Creative Expression, Summer, 2020
• Horse Network, Who Says You Can’t Get Married at the Barn? 1/20
• 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

ABOUT LISA

Lisa publishes essays on the writing life, sex and relationships, and her love for horses and cowboy country. Her essays have been picked up by Lexington, Kentucky’s Horse Network, yogi Jen P’s Manifest-Station, Ariana’s HuffPost,  and another appeared in the IPPY-award-winning anthology Unmasked: Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty, published in 2017. In August of 2018, she was awarded a one-month writer’s residency at Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts in Fairhope, Alabama. She lives near Boston, where she bikes, hikes, rides and edits technology blogs for the CTO of Hitachi Vantara.

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.