Lisa spent most of her childhood years in New Orleans writing overwrought poems and stories, and later earned undergraduate and Master's degrees from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in business from the University of Texas at Austin. She taught at the university level for several years and then became very active in her sons' school community, eventually returning to the world of words. She has published in Ladybug Magazine, and has written several collections of children's poetry. She and her aunt, adult novelist Valerie Martin, were inspired by her sons, then ages 8 and 10, to collaborate on a children's novel about two brother cats. Lisa lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her family. Anton and Cecil: Cats at Sea is her first novel.