Writing:
Lisa C. Peterson holds an MFA from UNR at Lake Tahoe, where she served on the editorial staff of the Sierra Nevada Review. Her other degrees include a BA and an MA from Stanford University as well as an MS in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill. Her memoir was named a winner of the Nov-Dec 2023 Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books. Lisa's work has also appeared in Hypertext Magazine, HeartWood Literary Magazine, HerStry, Writer’s Foundry Review, Sport Literate, The Closed Eye Open, The Writing Disorder, Sierra Nevada Review Blog, and elsewhere. She is a member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop, AWP, and the Authors Guild.

Life:
Although internally, Lisa has always embraced the identity of writer, her official resume resembles that of a serial career changer. After college, she spent four years touring five continents while skating with Disney on Ice before pivoting to pursue a master's in library science. (Because what could be more natural than morphing from showgirl to librarian?) She applied her new skillset at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, where she was credited in several stories for her research contributions. (She was also credited with several dating misadventures, but we won’t go into that here.) After five years at the newspaper, Lisa was ready for a change. So, she sold her house, quit her job, bought a truck-camper, and drove from Florida to Alaska with her Bichon Frise. When her travel money ran out, Lisa moved to Santa Cruz, opened a tutoring business, and eventually met her husband, Doug, on match.com. (They’d both experienced quite a few mismatches before meeting, and, if you’ve read this far, they’d love to regale you with those stories over a bottle of wine.)

Trivia:
Lisa has traveled to every continent except Antarctica. She’s also jumped from a plane, climbed Mount Fuji, and partied with Mick Jagger. (Disclaimer: Lisa admits that Mick probably has no memory of this particular party, but she insists they were technically co-present, there is photographic evidence, and that she remembers it quite well.)