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Pray Love and Be Cautious! It's gone viral! Versions of the same story are in The Improper, ExpatDailyNews, Camels & Chocolate and TripFilms,Lisa Alpine is the author of Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums and Tangled Hearts (Best Women's Adventure Memoir in the BAIPA Book Awards) and co-author of Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel and the first edition of the Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workbook. She is the Global Getaways columnist for Examiner.com and MotoSFO.
Her literary nonfiction stories appear in numerous anthologies, including Mambo Poa 2013, Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing 2011, BATW’s Travel Stories From Around the Globe 2012, Lonely Planet Tales From Nowhere, I Should Have Stayed Home, I Should Have Gone Home, Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why, She is the recent winner of the 2013 Solas Awards bronze medal under "Animal Encounter" for Trumpets of Warning. She has also been awarded the 2012 Solas Awards gold medal for Most Unforgettable Character in her story, Rada's Bloom.
She is also an acclaimed teacher and coach, and leads workshops on travel writing and dance as a healing art form.
Lisa is a member of the California Writers Club, Bay Area Travel Writers and the Wild Writing Women.
Extended Bio
The day she turned eighteen, Lisa Alpine moved to Paris. Over the next decade, she waitressed in Switzerland and picked olives in Greece, paddled the Amazon River, and created Dream Weaver Imports, a South American import company with two retail stores and a wholesale business in San Francisco.
In 1983, she gave birth to Galen Marc Alpine. That same year, she founded and published The Fax newspaper in Marin County, California. She then went on to be the Pacific Sun’s Getaway columnist for more than a decade. During this period she also freelanced for Frommers’ America on Wheels, Common Ground, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Mothering Magazine, Paddler Magazine, Physicians’ Travel & Meeting Guide, Specialty Travel Index, and many other publications. You can still read about her exotic escapes to Morocco, Fiji, Italy, Ireland—even Medford—in her Global Getaways column in Examiner.com and MotoSFO.
With her writing group, the Wild Writing Women, she co-authored Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel published by Globe Pequot Press.
In 2009 Lisa started Good to Go Media with Carla King, a venture that helped authors get their books out of their head and into the marketplace. They offered workshops and co-authored the Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workbook: Ten Steps to Self-Publishing Success, which they, of course, self-published. Watch a video about their successful Boot Camp program.
She teaches travel writing at The Writing Salon in San Francisco and Berkeley. For the last two decades, she has also led a plethora of writing and dance workshops in Hawai’i, New Mexico, Italy, Mexico, and France.
She is currently working on several new titles to be published by her imprint, Dancing Words Press. Upcoming titles include an embellished historical nonfiction, Wild Blood: Horse Thieves and Whores, about her renegade birth parents and their Gold Rush roots. On a completely different track, Journey Into Movement: Dancing Lessons From God, will be a book about the body-wisdom she has gleaned from twenty years of teaching dance as an ecstatic and healing art form.
Lisa volunteers for Earth Island Institute and SaveJapanDolphins.org and works directly with Ric O'Barry's (activist in The Cove) team to stop the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. She was interviewed on Smart Green Travel about swimming with wild dolphins. Listen here
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. Her gardens of vivid flowers and abundant fruit remind her that the future is always ripe with possibilities.
In 1983, she gave birth to Galen Marc Alpine. That same year, she founded and published The Fax newspaper in Marin County, California. She then went on to be the Pacific Sun’s Getaway columnist for more than a decade. During this period she also freelanced for Frommers’ America on Wheels, Common Ground, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Mothering Magazine, Paddler Magazine, Physicians’ Travel & Meeting Guide, Specialty Travel Index, and many other publications. You can still read about her exotic escapes to Morocco, Fiji, Italy, Ireland—even Medford—in her Global Getaways column in Examiner.com and MotoSFO.
With her writing group, the Wild Writing Women, she co-authored Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel published by Globe Pequot Press.
In 2009 Lisa started Good to Go Media with Carla King, a venture that helped authors get their books out of their head and into the marketplace. They offered workshops and co-authored the Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workbook: Ten Steps to Self-Publishing Success, which they, of course, self-published. Watch a video about their successful Boot Camp program.
She teaches travel writing at The Writing Salon in San Francisco and Berkeley. For the last two decades, she has also led a plethora of writing and dance workshops in Hawai’i, New Mexico, Italy, Mexico, and France.
She is currently working on several new titles to be published by her imprint, Dancing Words Press. Upcoming titles include an embellished historical nonfiction, Wild Blood: Horse Thieves and Whores, about her renegade birth parents and their Gold Rush roots. On a completely different track, Journey Into Movement: Dancing Lessons From God, will be a book about the body-wisdom she has gleaned from twenty years of teaching dance as an ecstatic and healing art form.
Lisa volunteers for Earth Island Institute and SaveJapanDolphins.org and works directly with Ric O'Barry's (activist in The Cove) team to stop the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. She was interviewed on Smart Green Travel about swimming with wild dolphins. Listen here
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. Her gardens of vivid flowers and abundant fruit remind her that the future is always ripe with possibilities.
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