Lisa St. John is a writer living in the beautiful Hudson Valley of upstate New York and used to live in the Arizona desert. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. Lisa is a board member of The International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG) and co-hosts their Featured Author and Open Mic series with Catharina Coenen. She is also on the Board of Trustees of the Stone Ridge Public Library and volunteers in their Little Book Shop.

I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.  ― Maya Angelou
 

A workshop junkie, Lisa takes writing classes online and in person whenever she can. She is currently working on a “kitchen-table MFA” in both creative writing and art history. Her actual A.A. is from Scottsdale Community College, her B.A. from Ottawa University, and her M.A. is from Stony Brook University. Lisa also has random credits from Buffalo State University, Arizona State University, and Ulster County Community College. She retired early after twenty years teaching public high school (photography and English Language Arts), where she learned that there is no greater gift than learning from teenagers.
 

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ― Alvin Toffler

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Lisa has sisters of blood and sisters of heart. Sometimes, they are the same person. She was married to the man of her dreams, who died of cancer on Thanksgiving 2012. She has a beautiful, thirty-something son, a fabulous daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren nicknamed Joy and Wonder. Lisa loves dogs but also loves travel, so she has a cat.

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When it comes to travel, it is the unexpected that captures the heart. –Kent St. John

When poems allow it, Lisa writes her blog, Widow's Words, and fine-tunes her memoir. She is seeking representation for The Dead Folder: My Truce with Grief.