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 26 years ago, Lisa decided to stay home (not for long!) and become a writer. In order to get published she started The Fax, a Marin County community newspaper. 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 26 years. She is the Global Getaway columnist for Examiner.com. She has been the travel columnist for the Pacific Sun in Marin County for over a decade and her articles and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including the recently released, Tales From Nowhere by Lonely Planet Guides, 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 has been a guest speaker at the WOW conference (Women On Writing), at the Book Passage Travel Writer’s Conference, Joining Our Voices: An Evening of Author Readings to Benefit the Global Fund for Women, the Women’s Adventure Travel Faire in San Francisco and the Women’s Travel Faire in La Jolla, CA.

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. To view their speaking calendar and award-winning ezine offerings, go to www.wildwritingwomen.com

She is also a member of BATW (Bay Area Travel Writers).

Lisa has also been teaching dance as a joyous and healing art form for 17 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 DanceInMarin.com & Danceweaver.com

Her most recent project is a book on her dance teaching titled: Dance Weaver: Journey Into Movement . She is also writing a collection of literary narratives, Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums, and Tangled Hearts. When not wrestling with words, teaching dance or waiting for a flight to depart, Lisa is also the mother of a 26-year-old son, Galen, who is currently trekking in the oldest rainforest on Earth in Malaysia.

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