About the Author.
Lisa Solod Warren was born in 1956 in Knoxville, Tennessee. She graduated from Brown Univesity in 1978 with an A.B. with honors in Semiotics. She also doubled majored in American Civilization. Her thesis consisted of three journalistic articles, one of which, on adult children of divorce, was published in a Rhode Island newspaper during her senior year.
She has held jobs as a newspaper writer, magazine editor and writer, freelance writer (doing everything from publicity to advertising to corporate writing) and was a book reviewer for both the Boston Herald and the Roanoke Times and World News. She has been writing fiction with a vengeance since 1988.
She has received a dozen fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts which saved her sanity during the early years of trying to raise two young children and write, have nurtured her craft and soul for years, and have introduced her to a number of wonderful artists and writers.
Her fiction has won several awards and has been published in many literary journals and magazines.
Her interview with Edward Gorey is reprinted in Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey and was mentioned in the New York Times review of the book. Her essays have been published in Matzo Balls for Breakfast and France, A Love Story. She has also published essys in The Brown Alumni Monthly, the Boston Herald, and the International Herald Tribune. Her fiction has appeared in two anthologies as well as several literary magazines.
You can also read a recent short story published on-line in literarymama.org. Her widely read article on middle school bullying was published in Brain, Child, in 2006.
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Lisa lives in Virginia with her teenaged daughter, her husband, the writer Michael Warren, her cat Jane, and many many pairs of shoes,a subject on which she has also written and published.
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