Lisa A. Moore

She traded the therapist's couch for the writer's desk and never looked back. She writes across genres with the enthusiasm of someone who has read too many books and considers this a personal achievement, not a problem.

When she is not dispatching fictional characters to their doom, Lisa is a watercolor artist and digital illustrator who brings her worlds to life on canvas, screen, or whatever surface is nearest when inspiration strikes. Her dog, Violette, serves as chief creative consultant and professional lap-warmer. Violette's primary contribution to the artistic process is strategic napping, and she is very good at it.

Her pilot husband is a man of extraordinary patience, and he uses it well. He whisks her away to corners of the world she would never have found on her own, where she collects atmospheric details, unusual architecture, and the kind of stories that only happen when you wander down the wrong alley at dusk. (She always picks the right wrong alley. It is a skill.)

At home, her craft room, garage, kitchen, and living room have each served time as a creative laboratory. She is currently enrolled in at least three courses at once, covering writing, art, and something involving fermentation that her husband has been told not to ask about. She believes learning is its own form of magic. The evidence supports this. So does the fermentation project, probably.