Lisa Romeo

Starting with Goodbye is Lisa’s first full length book, the story of a midlife daughter reconnecting with the deceased father she didn’t feel close to in life. Lisa has published hundreds of short memoir pieces, essays, nonfiction narratives, and freelance articles in popular magazines, newspapers, and websites, and in many literary journals and essay anthology collections. Those include work in the New York Times, O The Oprah Magazine, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Brain Child, Inside Jersey, Under the Sun, Longreads, Hippocampus, Brevity, The Chronicle of the Horse, L’Anne Hippique, and many more.

Her work is cited in Best American Essays 2016, and has been nominated several times for both BAE and the Pushcart Prize. Lisa is the recipient of several grants and scholarships, and often speaks at writing conferences. She has taught writing courses online, and works as a writing coach and independent editor, helping other writers polish their manuscripts. Lisa is a founding faculty member and current thesis director in the creative nonfiction MFA program at Bay Path University. She holds an MFA from Stonecoast (University of Southern Maine), a BS in journalism from Newhouse (Syracuse University). Previously, Lisa has worked as an equestrian journalist, public relations specialist, real estate trouble-shooter, and horse show judge.

Lisa lives in her native New Jersey with her husband Frank (who was her high school crush), and their two sons. If she’s not writing, teaching, or editing, she can be found reading, cooking, taking walks, or yelling at her menfolk to stop watching football on TV or playing video games.