Lisa Teasley

Born in Los Angeles, California, Teasley studied English literature and Creative Writing at UCLA. She made her debut as a short fiction writer with the story collection Glow in the Dark, which won the Gold Pen and Pacificus Foundation awards. She made her debut as a novelist with Dive.  Her second novel was Heat Signature. She wrote and presented the BBC television documentary “High School Prom” in 2006.  She lives in Los Angeles. Lisa Teasley is the Senior Editor, Fiction for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Short Stories:

• Joyland, Retro Volume 1, No. 3, 2013
• Women on the Edge, Toby Press, 2005
• Shaking the Tree, Norton, 2003
• Brown Sugar 4, published by Simon & Schuster, 2005
• Brown Sugar 3, Simon & Schuster, 2004
• Brown Sugar 1, Atria, 2001
• Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Wiley, 2000
• In The Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers, Harlem River Press, 2000

Essays:

• Because I Said So, HarperCollins, 2005
• An Ear to the Ground, Cune Press, 1997

Poetry:

• Beyond the Frontier, Black Classic Press, 2002

• Gold Pen 2002
• Pacificus Foundation 2002