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 has also written INSIDE OUT, a book length work of narrative nonfiction about motherhood. 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 before settling in Northern California, more by accident than design.

Since 2000, Lisa Harper 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, with whom she 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 6^th 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 Reece Halsey North.

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