Lisa still stumbles when people ask her where home is. Born in Canada to Australian parents and raised in Australia, Bangladesh, the States, and Zimbabwe, she has also lived in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Croatia. If she could shake off the nagging sense that she’s supposed to be working right now and live anywhere, she’d choose her parents house in Australia, although her Mum reckons she would be bored within two weeks living in a sugar-cane farming town. Lisa thinks it would take at least two years. As she has yet to persuade her parents to hand over their house, however, it seems moot. Lisa trained as a forensic psychologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and also holds a masters degree in international peace studies from Notre Dame. She is currently living in Los Angeles and working as the Director of Training and Education Services for the Headington Institute, a nonprofit that provides psychological and spiritual support services to humanitarian relief and development workers around the world. When she is not working, sitting on airplanes, hanging out with friends, or daydreaming about sitting on the back porch of her parent’s house and staring out to sea, she is writing. Sometimes she also writes while sitting on airplanes, or on the back porch, or very occasionally while hanging out with friends. Not while working though. That would be wrong. Lisa’s first book, My hands came away red, was released by Moody in September 2007. She is currently working on her second novel. Well, she is at least thinking about working on her second novel. Well, she can say the words “second novel” now without having a panic attack. She feels this is good progress. When Lisa is not thinking about writing her second novel, she is writing essays. Her work has appeared in a number of different magazines.