Lisa Alpine is the award-winning author of "Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman" and "Exotic Life: Travel Tales of an Adventurous Woman" (Best Women's Adventure Memoir in the BAIPA Book Awards). She is the co-author of "Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel" and the first edition of the "Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workbook".Lisa is the recipient of the Best Travel Story of the Year 2014 Silver Solas Awards for "Fish Trader Ray"-- the winning story about a quirky character she met in the Amazon, which is in her story collection "Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman".Her literary nonfiction stories appear in numerous anthologies, including Mambo Poa, Travelers' Tales "Best Travel Writing", BATW's "Travel Stories From Around the Globe", Lonely Planet's "Tales From Nowhere", "I Should Have Stayed Home", "I Should Have Gone Home", and "Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why".Lisa is the winner of the Solas Awards bronze medal under "Animal Encounter" for "Trumpets of Warning" and the Solas Awards gold medal for Most Unforgettable Character in her story "Rada's Bloom". Both of these stories are included in "Wild Life".She is currently working on several new titles. "Dance Life" will include wild stories about her dance experiences around the world along with essays on the body-wisdom she has gleaned from 25 years of teaching dance as an ecstatic and healing art form. Another upcoming book project is an embellished historical nonfiction, "Wild Blood: Horse Thieves and Whores" about her renegade birth parents and their Gold Rush roots.She is an acclaimed teacher and coach, and leads workshops on narrative nonfiction, travel writing, Poetry in Motion, and dance as a healing art form.Lisa is a member of Bay Area Travel Writers and Women's National Book Association.Lisa volunteers for Earth Island Institute and SaveJapanDolphins.org working with Ric O'Barry's (activist in "The Cove") team to stop dolphin slaughter and sales to the entertainment industry and marine parks. She has been interviewed on Smart Green Travel about swimming with wild dolphins.When not wrestling with words, exploring the ecstatic realms of dance, swimming with sea creatures, or waiting for a flight, Lisa is tending her orchards in Mill Valley, CA and the Big Island of Hawai'i. Her gardens of vivid flowers and abundant fruit remind her that the future is always ripe with possibilities.To find out about her writing workshops and book events, go to www.lisaalpine.com