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Bio—Lisa Dale Norton
Lisa Dale Norton is the author of the upcoming Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (St. Martin’s Press, August 2008) and the critically-acclaimed memoir, Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills.
The popular teacher and speaker inspires audiences throughout the world with her passion for the power of personal stories to change lives, and she has taught thousands of students about writing. She founded the Santa Fe Writing Institute, teaches Creative Nonfiction and Memoir Writing for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and also works with private clients across the country who are writing Narrative Nonfiction books. She has appeared on television and radio discussing a number of topics related to storytelling and memoir and has recently begun blogging about writing.
“Literally millions of Americans want to be ‘writers,’” Lisa says, “and there have never been more outlets for their stories. In addition to traditional books, magazines, movies, television and even songs and poetry, we have millions of blogs, MySpace and Facebook pages, outlets for commentary, YouTube videos and other places where storytellers share and promote their creativity. Shimmering Images was written for everyone from the beginning writer to those who write professionally to help them see their best stories are embedded in their memories and to help them get those stories on the page in a way that captivates readers.”
Lisa currently blogs on the subjects of storytelling, writing and memoir on The Huffington Post, the UCLA Writers’ Extension blogspot and her own website, lisadalenorton.com.
Her 1996 book Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills, a work of memoir and natural history writing (Picador/St. Martin’s Press), was dubbed comparable to the writing of Annie Dillard and Terry Tempest Williams. “Shimmering Images came after I wrote my own memoir based on everything I learned before and since,” Lisa explains.
“The word ‘writer’ has never had such a broad definition. I work with so many writers around the country and overseas—London, Berlin, Majorca—spanning every generation, every background and professional and personal goal. They represent the millions of others who are all seeking a way to make their life experience into a narrative that will captivate readers. Whether they want to write the next great American memoir or text to their bff better, they all have stories to tell.
“These are women in their 80s finding ways to share life wisdom, young working professionals, veteran corporate executives,” Lisa explains. ”One student is a psychiatrist in his 60s, another is a math professor thinking about retirement, and there are stay-at-home moms in my workshops and classes, college students, business leaders, teachers, really people from all walks of life looking back on their lives and searching for meaning.”
Lisa teaches that crafting a story about the past can give people a way to live their future with integrity and understanding. The iconic memories Lisa Dale Norton calls “Shimmering Images” are the secret.
“Why haven’t you written?” Lisa asks. Her conclusion based on traveling the country teaching thousands of people, is that it’s a sheer lack of know-how.
“What I love about Shimmering Images is it’s a concept anybody can grasp. It’s the old light bulb above the head when people get it and see how easy it is to link memories to make a longer story,” Lisa says.
“It’s all about being the hero of your own story and when people write their own stories, using their Shimmering Images, they have a chance to rewrite their past. My new book makes this possible.
Lisa lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned degrees from Reed College and the University of Iowa.
Publicity Photo—Lisa Dale Norton
Press Release—Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir
SHIMMERING IMAGES BY LISA DALE NORTON
HAS ANSWERS FOR AMERICA’S MILLIONS OF WRITERS
NEW YORK, June 2008 — Lisa Dale Norton, author of Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (St. Martin’s Press / St. Martin’s Griffin / August 2008 / 0-312-38292-8 / $13.95 / 144 pages), has the words and the numbers timed perfectly for today’s culture. Her book, a guide to writing personal stories that transform lives, provides the basics for generations of today’s storytellers to write their authentic stories. The need is there, and the numbers tell the story:
• Googling “memoir” brings up an astounding 25,100,000 references.
• In 2002, 24 million people in the U.S. described themselves as writers. Today, there are plenty more, and many of them have blogs.
• There are 779 million references for “story” on Google.
• Amazon.com offers 947,272 results for “story” and 33,700,000 for autobiography.
• Technorati is currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and more than 250 million pieces of tagged social media.
• There are over 175,000 new blogs every day. Bloggers update their blogs with more than one-and-a-half million posts each day, or 18 each second.
• Wikipedia has over 10 million articles in 253 languages, comprising a total of over 1.74 billion words for all Wikipedias, as of March 2008. Just in English, Wikipedia passed the 2,000,000 article mark and those consist of over 1,002,000,000 words.
• Recent memoirs by newsmakers and celebrities like Barack Obama, Augusten Burroughs, Barbara Walters, Julie Andrews, Ted Sorenson, Leslie Jordan, Valerie Bertinelli, Jim Nantz, Suze Rotolo, Jessica Queller, Scott McClellan and David Sheff have topped bestseller lists joining earlier memoirs that captured the imagination of the American reading public—A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah; Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin; Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert; The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls; and Marley & Me by John Grogan.
• The Library of Congress has more than 130 million items, including more than 29 million cataloged books and other print materials, more than 59 million manuscripts, and they are still collecting.
“Wait,” author Norton says. “Slow down. Library of Congress aside, most of this writing is just not good. That means much of it is not being read and certainly will not be preserved, so what’s the point?”
That’s where her new book, Shimmering Images, the result of her 25 years of teaching and writing comes in. Norton coaches writers to search their memory banks for the “shimmering images” that are recalled again and again and which, even though they may not be tied to a storyline, seem to vibrate with energy. Collecting these images and laying them out in front of ourselves, we can begin to see patterns in our lives we’d never noticed before weave them into a storyline.
“Stories are the way we make sense of our world, our daily experiences. Without stories our lives would be without meaning,” says Norton.
Wikipedia, with its millions of contributors, offers some of what people think “story” means:
A narrative, more specifically:
A piece of literature (also known as a tale):
~ Novel or specifically, an epistolary novel
~ Short story or a novella
~ Frame tale, a narrative technique
~ Fable, fairy tale or tall tale
~ Play, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters
~ Anecdote, a brief tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident
~ A branching narrative, such as in a gamebook or certain video games
~ Bedtime story, entertaining or instructive, often extemporaneous tale for a child
~ Urban legend
~ Plot, underlying structure holding a narrative together (also in movies)
~ An essay or news article, in journalism slang
~ In organization studies, is fragmented, collectively enacted, and co-constructed
~ User story—way of illustrating software requirements
~ A depiction of history
~ In older American slang, a soap opera, (e.g., “I’ll talk later; my stories are on.”)
~ A happening in real life
~ Along with parable, a basic principle or pattern of the human mind.
Everyone has different views of stories, but all realize their importance.
Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese explains his views about story”:
“One of the things that steered me in the direction of
visual storytelling was the fact that I come from a working-
class family. There was no tradition of reading in the house,
no books. Of course I read in school.
“I loved books . . . I was much more open to whatever visual
codes were hidden in films. What I mean by that is the
storytelling of cinema through the use of the camera and the
use of light, actors, and dialogue — all the literature of
the screenplay translated through the images.
“The stories were wonderful in the films, but it was
also the way of telling the story. As a young person, I
started to wonder, Why is the way of telling the story so
interesting?”
— Herman Hupfeld, not a household name but quite a wordsmith, spread a popular view of the story:
“It’s still the same old story,
“A fight for love and glory
“A case of do or die!
“The world will always welcome lovers
“As time goes by.”
— William Shakespeare wrote about his views of his own storytelling:
“For never was a story of more woe
“Than this of Juliet and Romeo.”
— Robert Frost had this aim for his last story:
“And were an epitaph to be my story
“I’d have a short one ready for my own
“I would have written of me on my stone
“I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”
— Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography:
“The next thing most like living one’s life over again seems to be
a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable
as possible by putting it down in writing.”
“William Wordsworth had his own way of explaining writing in 1807,” Norton notes:
“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or
original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”
Shimmering Images teaches people how to create the taste, gather the recollections, relay lover’s quarrels with the world, convey stories as sad as Romeo and Juliet and celebrate lovers. The author provides tools for writers to claim individual truths and become the heroes of their lives. She teaches a process for getting stories heard and even supplies the encouragement to believe individual lives matter and the compassionate stories people write about themselves and others are the most important work they can do in the world.
“On an individual level, I may not be able to do anything about the Iraq War or the economy,” Norton says, “but I can write a story about my life, and when I do that truthfully, I invite the next person to do the same, and the next, and the next, and the next. And when that happens, change on a larger scale occurs, by the sheer weight of the process. And that means transformation, which just might, in the end, affect the Iraq War or the economy.”
Shimmering Images is written for today’s writer, covering the basics of how to generate compelling stories for critically-acclaimed or best-selling books or better blogging.
“It’s a different world, but the written word is the beneficiary,” Norton says. “Even advertisers are looking at words differently.”
The “Wall Street Journal” recently headlined an advertising story:
“Marketers Try to Be ‘Kewl’
With Text-Message Lingo
Ads With Abbreviations
Aim to Reach Teens;
Unilever’s OMG Moment,”
which contained such examples of modern-day prose as “OMG! Moments” to promote deodorant, the screen message of “r u ready?” for McDonald’s, “get2knojack” for Frito-Lay and, of course, Paris Hilton’s new series, “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF,” noting, for the uninitiated, a bff is a “best friend forever.”
Many numbers are cited for how many books are published each year (perhaps close to 200,000 each in the U.S. and U.K., with China next topping 100,000), and the desire to be published is not diminishing. In the U.S., experts estimate that only one of every 100 books submitted is published traditionally.
In 2002, 24 million people in the U.S. described themselves as writers. “Today, there are many more, and they all seem to have blogs,” Norton says. “Whatever the numbers, there are some basics which can be helpful to everyone,” Norton explains.
Did You Know? . . .
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MEMOIR?
by
Lisa Dale Norton, author of
SHIMMERING IMAGES:
A Handy Little Guide
to Writing Memoir
(St. Martin’s Press, August 2008)
Googling “memoir” brings up an astounding 25,100,000 references.
In 2002, 24 million people in the U.S. described themselves as writers. Today, there are plenty more, and many of them have blogs.
Technorati is currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and more than 250 million pieces of tagged social media.
There are over 175,000 new blogs every day. Bloggers update their blogs with more than one-and-a-half million posts each day, or 18 each second.
Wikipedia has over 10 million articles in 253 languages, comprising a total of over 1.74 billion words for all Wikipedias, as of March 2008. Just in English, Wikipedia passed the 2,000,000 article mark and those consist of over 1,002,000,000 words.
The numbers are overwhelming. It seems everyone has a story to tell, whether in a published memoir of a Facebook page. What is a story? What is a memoir? Lisa Dale Norton presents 50 handy little ways to answer today’s most-discussed literary question.
• Storytelling is art.
• Memoir is storytelling.
• Memoir is art.
• In just the past few months memoirs by newsmakers and celebrities like Barack Obama, Augusten Burroughs, Barbara Walters, Julie Andrews, Ted Sorenson, Leslie Jordan, Valerie Bertinelli, Jim Nantz, Suze Rotolo, Jessica Queller, Barack Obama, and Scott McClellan and David Sheff have topped bestseller lists joining earlier memoirs that captured the imagination of the American reading public—A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah; Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin; Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert; The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls; and Marley & Me by John Grogan. The list goes on.
• This is the Age of Memoir
• The Wall Street Journal recently noted that memoirs were once used mainly by retired political figures to burnish their reputations and relate a few moldy anecdotes of the self-serving “and then I telephoned the White House on the hotline” variety. But the times they are a changin’ and memoir is now the form of the masses.
• Writing your personal stories can transform the life you are living.
• Memoir is a story you shape about your life.
• Memoir is an agent of change.
• Memoir is a story of some slim segment of your life.
There are 779 million references for “story” on Google.
Amazon.com offers 956,494 results for story, 291,772 for autobiography, and 218,833 for memoir.
• “Shimmering Images” are the basis of memoir.
• “Shimmering Images” are flickering memory pictures—like an image of your mother peeling potatoes at the sink—that you’ve remembered forever and that hang around in your mind waiting to bring meaning in your life.
• “Shimmering Images” are doorways to your most powerful personal stories.
• You use your “Shimmering Images” to construct meaning.
• Writing stories is a way to order chaos.
• Story heals the soul in an elemental way.
• Memoir closes a story around life experience and in the process “closes” that experience in the past.
• You make stories to take yourself and others to a new realm where the spirit can be repaired.
• A recent National Education Association study found 7 percent of adults polled, or 15 million people, did creative writing for personal fulfillment.
• People read memoir to learn how to live a better life by witnessing mistakes, victories, wisdom, and humility displayed by fellow human beings.
• People read memoir to find heroes of everyday life.
• People want to be shown examples of how to live a better life.
• Each person has a story he tells about his life. Writing memoir is about transforming that story.
• Everything is a story.
• The job of the memoirist is to claim your own truth, accept responsibility for your actions, and make sense of other people’s actions in the context of a story.
• Every person remembers dozens of “Shimmering Images” every day.
• Life wouldn’t be recognizable without your “Shimmering Images.”
• People remember “Shimmering Images” because memories wait for you to pay attention to them and see the wisdom they have to share.
• Writing a personal story helps you make sense of the chaos of life events and attach meaning to them.
• People use words to make meaning in their lives.
• If you do not write your hardest stories they remain confused inside of you and you never get on to other things in your life.
• Writing life stories borders on they mystical because you become the master of your own reality.
• Writing a personal story is a kind of art that soothes the soul.
• When you write down your “Shimmering Images” and find the wisdom that’s inside them, you change.
• When you use the wisdom of your “Shimmering Images” to make a truth about the past, a new future dawns.
• Writing “Shimmering Images” gives people the opportunity to break free of old storylines and move on to bigger, more compassionate selves.
• “Shimmering Images” are key to understanding your life.
• If you write with balance, honesty, and compassion you don’t hurt people with our memoir.
• You must voice your stories to get beyond them.
• Being honest in memoir has to do with compassion for self and others.
• You can’t be truly honest if you aren’t being compassionate.
• Getting honest in memoir means learning compassion for the people in your life you would rather demonize.
• Getting honest in memoir means coming to terms with shared humanness, seeing all the players with empathy, including yourself.
• You have the right to speak. You have the right to tell your stories. Your have the right to be heard. The book Shimmering Images helps you do all that.
• The book Shimmering Images helps you believe the stories you tell are important.
• The book Shimmering Images refuses to let naysayers silence the storyteller in each person.
• The book Shimmering Images helps you rip away the illusion of what you’ve
always told yourself—the negative storylines—and construct a
new, more positive way of seeing life experience.
• Narrative heals.
• The book Shimmering Images gives writers a way to use wisdom to touch hearts and changes lives.
The Library of Congress has more than 130 million items, including more than 29 million cataloged books and other print materials, more than 59 million manuscripts, and they are still collecting.
Book Description—Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir
Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir (Griffin/St. Martin’s Press—August 2008) is just exactly that—the quickest, handiest little guide to writing a story about your life that exists on the market. It’s funny and clever, and full of big-hearted compassion for every writer who has ever dreamed of penning a life story. The chapters are short and the technique of using the “Shimmering Images” of your life to weave a story has been proven again and again in classes Lisa has taught to thousands of people across America. This book teaches you how to use the power of story to change your life.
Endorsements for Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir
Honest, taut, funny, useful, stimulating, graceful, and all those otherlovely words, but best of all this book will make you sit your skinny butt in the chair and actually start typing, which is the point. A terrific book of operating instructions for giving birth to stories.”
—Brian Doyle, editor, Portland Magazine
Shimmering Images is an encouraging, smart, and surprisingly funny guide, full of well-tested exercises and approaches. Lisa Dale Norton teaches memoir writers how to get beyond blame and self-pity, how to find the compassion that leads to new insights, how to be “bone honest” with themselves. She is a very wise coach who understands that the writing process is the way to truth, that truth is complex and deep. This “handy little guide” will transform the lives of those who need to understand their pasts in order to change their futures—that is to say, all of us. Trust me, she says: and we do, we do.”
—Meg Files, Director, Pima Writers’ Workshop, Tucson
Shimmering Images is a practical, simple, and wonderfully concise guide for memoirists seeking to improve their craft as well as those who are just getting started.”
—Debra Ginsberg, author of Waiting, Raising Blaze, About My Sisters, and Blind Submission
Shimmering Images is a marvelously uncomplicated little book. Read it through once for the gorgeous sentences, but on the second run, get to work! With Lisa Dale Norton’s kind guidance, you’ll have your life shimmering on paper in no time, a universe to give to friends or family or even the whole wide world.”
— Bill Roorbach, author of Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature
Never has there been a more compassionate gift to those who write. Shimmering Images is a clear-eyed, authentic vision of the art of storytelling. Norton gathers the inspirational winds in her sails, and gently propels the writer toward a place of knowing–that place where one can, at last, trust in the creative self. Awesome. Simply awesome.”
—Doris Booth, Editor-in-Chief, Authorlink.com
Like a smart friend in whom you can confide, Lisa Dale Norton leads you not only through the issues of craft you’ll need in order to form your life stories into art, but–perhaps more importantly–through the emotional landscape such work requires. A thoughtful, helpful tool for anyone facing the challenge of memoir.”
—Samantha Dunn, author of Faith in Carlos Gomez
Shimmering Images is every memoir writer’s ideal guide. With eloquent Simplicity borne of decades of teaching writing, Lisa Dale Norton has given us a map and a method that soars above all others.”
—Elizabeth Lyon, author of Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write and A Writer’s Guide to Nonfiction
“You can read this book in an hour — but the impact could well last a lifetime. It’s simple, smart and inspiring.”
—Jennie Nash, author of The Last Beach Bungalow
In Shimmering Images Lisa Dale Norton traces a clear stimulating path to writing a memoir. Norton starts with the ideas behind the process, how story transforms experience on the page. She then gives the step-by-step process that she has been teaching for decades—finding Shimmering Images (memory pictures) and weaving them into a whole. In the third part Norton looks at some of the tools to craft the process. In writing bighearted, compassionate stories, we contribute to changing the world. Norton’s book is bighearted and compassionate. It is a gift to the reader.
—Susan Tiberghien, author of One Year to a Writing Life
Lisa Norton reminds us in this wonderfully wise and accessible book that the act of storytelling is mythmaking, and writing memoir is storytelling; whatever myth you sculpt from your past will influence your future. This helpful book itself is perfectly sculpted: the writing tools Norton expertly shares enable us to bring into brilliant clarity the defining moments in our lives. Norton convinces us that writing memoir – the sheer act of sharing your truth – can not only transform your life, but can transform the world. If you are writing a memoir, you must read Shimmering Images.”
—Page Lambert, author of In Search of Kinship; leader of River Writing Journeys for Women and Outdoor Writing Adventures for over ten years
This book shimmers with thought-provoking insights and truth, and Lisa Dale Norton’s elegantly spare formula is a valuable addition to the literature on the topic. Even though she specifically addresses only the memoir form, her system of memory retrieval and organization will be useful to any life writer.”
—Sharon Lippincott, author of The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing
Lisa Dale Norton’s practical and lively guide to writing memoir is like having your very own writing coach holding your hand and guiding you through your story with patience and humor. Her clear, good advice covers everything you’ll need to start writing: the difference between memoir and autobiography, claiming your own voice, finding the heart of your story, and finally crafting it into a piece of work to send out into the world.”
—Barbara Abercrombie, author of Courage and Craft and Writing out the Storm
‘Shimmering Images’ is how Lisa Norton describes those flashes of memory that haunt us on the brightest of days or in the darkest of tunnels when least expected. Indeed they are, fleeting moments in time we can not forget because we responded emotionally and our lives were forever changed. Moved to great heights of joy, we want to share our feelings with the world. Scarred by fear, anger or loss we want to dig deeper and recapture and share the hope and love that healed. Memoirists feel compelled to take this journey, and in her book Lisa Norton provides a map to show us where to begin, which way to turn, and most important, how to dig up and unlock the truths that were always there, waiting to be told. Anyone who has ever wanted to write memoir needs this precious little handbook to find out where and how to start, and better still, how to keep going in the right direction.”
—Penny Porter, author of Heartstrings and Tail-Tuggers and Adobe Secrets, Past-President and Membership Chair, Society of Southwestern Authors
Shimmering Images has what it takes to be an outstanding how-to book for aspiring writers. It is sound, fertile, imaginative; it guides the aspiring writer around the pitfalls and into the delights of turning memories into memoir. It inspires and grounds the writer with a combination of practical, easy-to-follow steps, a rationale for engaging in this challenging process in the first place and ways to sustain the effort for the long haul. I would recommend this book to teachers as well as to adults who are working on this genre individually.”
—Muriel Dance, Ph.D., Director, Center for Continuing Education; Antioch University Seattle
In Shimmering Images, Lisa Dale Norton gently takes you by the hand and leads you through the process of getting down the story of your life. You learn how to access your “shimmering images” — the people, places, and events that are the source of your most powerful stories. You discover how to connect these images to the key turning points in your personal journey, and weave them into the rich tapestry that is your life. Practical and inspiring, Shimmering Images is a must have for anyone contemplating writing a memoir.”
—Carol Franco, co-author of The Legacy Guide: Capturing the Facts, Memories, and Meaning of Your Life
Shimmering Images is the quintessential book on memoir writing and should be required reading for anyone who is thinking about crafting a memoir.”
—Jennifer McCord, past president of Pacific Northwest Writers Association
Lisa Dale Norton’s little book is a big-hearted treasure. She gives writers specific guidance, her voice one of passionate encouragement. Norton’s message is that when getting going on a memoir, process means more than product—only through a disciplined and creative process can a writer experience the hard-won satisfaction that leads to a book. This spirited guide will be a deskside companion to memoirists old and new for years to come.”
—Thomas Larson, author of The Memoir and the Memoirist
Book Description—Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills
Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills (Picador/St. Martin’s Press) combines a lyrical narrative of Lisa’s life with an exploration of the natural world of the Sandhills of Nebraska. The outcome is a beautiful story about how we become whole again after bad things happen. But in the process, Hawk Flies Above becomes more than just another memoir of tough times overcome, it becomes a loving chronicle of the fading American West and a threatened and rare landscape—the unbroken Sandhill prairie of The Great Plains.
Endorsements for Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills
This book merits a place alongside the works of Terry Tempest Williams and Annie Dillard.”
— Kirkus Reviews
By following her nose through the dunes and dusty roads, opening her heart to the times, places, and people that came before, and above all nursing her own whim, Lisa Norton has created a portrait of the Nebraska Sandhills that I will never forget. From the minutia of barefoot days among sandbar willows to the fragile enormity of the Ogallala Aquifer, this remarkable chronicle ties life, love, and responsibility together in a deeply personal way that somehow applies to us all.”
—Robert Michael Pyle, author of Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide
Lisa Dale Norton’s healing journey through the history and ecology of the Sandhills of Nebraska eloquently demonstrates the importance of following the heart’s pathways to the land called home.”— Barbara J. Scot, author of Prairie Reunion
A brave story of disturbance and reconciliation: A voice of strength has descended.”
— Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge, Leap and Desert Quartet
Hawk Flies Above offers a rare vision of the fragile and beautiful Heartland. The author’s journey toward self-discovery resonates with healing and grace.”
— Craig Lesley, author of Winterkill and The Sky Fisherman
Searching the soul of territory – her high-domed home in the Nebraska Sandhills – Lisa Norton manages to illuminate the territory of the soul. This bright book celebrates the healing power of landscape.”
— Robin Cody, author of Voyage of a Summer Sun and Ricochet River
Powerful…an ambitious book…part nature writing, part memoir, part ecological treatise.”
– The Lincoln Journal Star
Lisa’s Upcoming Events
Check back regularly for newly added appearances.
Scheduled 2009:
Featured Author. Southern Festival of Books, Nashville TN, October 9-11, 2009.
Defining Your Voice In Memoir: The Lyrical Seeker vs. The Logical Advocate. Pima Community College Writing Program, Tucson, AZ, November 13-15, 2009.
Using Your Shimmering Images to Write Your Memoir. Santa Fe Public Library—La Farge Branch, Santa Fe, NM, November 17, 2009.
