The
day she turned 18, Lisa started working to travel. She waitressed in Switzerland
and picked olives in Greece, explored the Amazon River and created Dream
Weaver Imports, a South American import company with two retail stores
and a wholesale business in San Francisco.
When her son Galen was born almost 20 years ago, Lisa decided to start
a community newspaper (The Fax) and become a writer. That did not stop
her from traveling! Since their first trip together to Morocco at eight-months
old, Galen has been her most frequent companion, singing nursery rhymes
to lounging lions in Kenya and snorkeling with giant squid in Fiji.
Lisa has been a professional writer for 20 years and is the travel columnist
for the Pacific Sun in Marin County. Her articles and short stories have
appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including I Should Have
Stayed Home, the Los Angeles Times, SF Chronicle and Examiner, Paddler
Magazine, San Diego Union, Physicians’ Travel & Meeting Guide,
St. Paul Pioneer Press, Atlanta Journal, Parenting and Specialty Travel
Index. She is the creative director of Travel Press International, and
has been a guest speaker at the Book Passage Travel Writer’s Conference,
the Women’s Adventure Travel Faire in San Francisco and the Women’s
Travel Faire in La Jolla, CA.
Lisa teaches writing workshops regularly at The Writing Salon in San Francisco, Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA and at her studio in Marin County.
Lisa is a proud member of the Wild Writing Women™ whose first book, Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, has been published by Globe Pequot Press. They are currently writing stories for their second anthology. The subject is a secret!
Lisa has also been teaching dance as a joyous and healing art form for 12 years. Lisa combines her love of storytelling, poetry, travel and dance into workshops around the world. She offers individual and group dance classes in the Dance Weaver studio in Marin County, California, in France at Global Live Art and at many other retreat centers around the world. A full calendar and description of her dance workshops can be found at www.danceweaver.com
Her most recent project is a book proposal on her dance teaching titled: Dance Weaver: Journey Into Movement . She just mailed this off to a prospective publisher and is praying for a big advance! When not wrestling with words, teaching dance or waiting for a flight to depart, Lisa is also a whitewater kayak guide and mother of a 19-year-old son, Galen, who is currently backpacking and sea kayaking in Patagonia.
To register for workshops, inquire about private writing & authoring sessions,
article assignments & reprints, and other info:
Contact Lisa Alpine at writing@lisaalpine.com or call 541 941-4759
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