Lisa’s work has been recently featured in Marcia Meier’s (Weeping Willow Books) IPPY award-winning anthology, Unmasked, Women Write About Sex & Intimacy After Fifty. In August, she will take advantage of a month-long writer’s residency at Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts Wolff Cottage in Fairhope, Alabama based on the merit of her published work and an excerpt from “Love and Blood are the Color Red,” a book-length work-in-process about a summer she spent in Cody, Wyoming “wrestling the locals to win ranchin’ chores only done properly by a man.”

My bittersweet reunion with my love of Wyoming, June 2018.

Lisa considers Massachusetts her home, but has lived in Connecticut, Vermont, New York State and two other planets called Wyoming and Arizona. She earned a B.A. from Regis College and an MBA from Babson College, and holds a Master certificate in Reiki. She is an avid big data tweeter and cyclist, and loves hiking with her dog Sabrina.

Publications:

• Machines for Freedom, Why I Love Bike Commuting in Boston, 6/18
• WOW! Women on Writing Q1 2017 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest, The Gentlemen’s Agreement, Finalist | Honorable Mention, 1/18
• Awarded Fairhope Writer-in-Residency, Wolff Cottage, Fairhope, Alabama, 8/18
• The Crux, Snowflake, 11/17
• Vine Leaves Literary Journal (AUS), A Collection of Vignettes from Across the Globe (coffee table book), Grievances, print, 11/17
• Unmasked, Women Write about Sex & Intimacy After Fifty, Libido, print, 10/17
• Adanna, Why I Love Bike Commuting in Boston, print, 10/17
• Direct2Dell, Dell EMC blog, 5 Ways to Make Friends at Work, 9/17
• 1888 Center | Why We Write, The Catalyst, 9/17
• Learning from Dogs Blog, Sabrina’s Loyalty, 8/17
• Fiction Southeast, This Writer’s Secret to Doing What She Loves, 8/17
• Gravel, T-boned, 12/16
• Fiftiness, Not Having Children Was My Perfect Path, 12/16
• Slippery Elm, Forgive Me, print, 12/16
• Foliate Oak, What More Is There to Ask?, 9/16
• The Artist Unleashed, The Secret to Doing What You Love, 9/16
• East Bay Review, Becoming Our Fathers, 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

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

Lisa can be reached at Lisa at lisa dot demasi at gmail.