LISA CATHERINE HARPER is Adjunct Professor of Writing in the University of San Francisco’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program, as well as a freelance writer. She earned a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. in Creative Writing and a PhD in English from the University of California, Davis.
Her writing about food and motherhood has appeared in a range of nonfiction and academic journals and anthologies, including Gastronomica, Literary Mama, and Lost. She has recently co-edited Learning to Eat, an anthology of writing about family food culture. With Caroline Grant, her co-editor, she blogs about how and why she feeds her family at http://learningtoeatbook.com
She is the author of A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood, winner of the 2010 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, about why motherhood turns women inside out. See breeding.
Harper was born in New Jersey, and lived and worked in New York City, London, Belfast, Amsterdam, Paris, the French Alps, and Austin, TX before settling in Northern California, more by accident than design.
Since 2000, she has taught nonfiction writing workshops and seminars in modern and contemporary prose at the University of San Francisco, where she is a core faculty member of their MFA in Writing Program. She has also taught at UC Davis, and at various branches of the California State University system.
She lives in a modest Eichler home with her husband, Kory Heinzen, an Art Director at PDI/Dreamworks, with whom she co-founded the San Francisco Jitterbugs. They taught, performed and competed in vintage swing dances for years before the birth of their daughter, Ella. Once, they placed 6th at the US Open.
Now, in addition to writing and teaching, she is a full-time mother to her daughter, Ella, and her son, Finn.
She is represented by Elizabeth Evans at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency.
You can contact her at:
LisaCatherineHarper AT gmail DOT com
or
Lisa Catherine Harper
Masters of Fine Arts in Writing Program
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Agent:
Elizabeth Evans
216 East 75th Street Suite 1E
New York, NY 10021
