Lisa Teasley

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Lisa Teasley
Lisa Teasley in LA 2015.jpeg
BornJuly 22, 1964
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Genre Literary Fiction
Notable worksDive, Heat Signature, Glow in the Dark

Lisa Teasley is an American writer and artist. Her first book, the story collection Glow in the Dark (2002) [1] won the Gold Pen [2] and Pacificus Foundation [3] awards. Her second and third books, the novels Dive (2004) [4] and Heat Signature (2006), [5] address gender, race, intercultural and justice issues. She is the writer and presenter of the BBC television documentary “High School Prom” (2006). [6] She is the Senior Editor, Fiction for the Los Angeles Review of Books. [7] She lives in Los Angeles. [8]

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Early life and education

Lisa Teasley was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, to Larkin Teasley and Violet Williams. Her father is African-American, her mother is Panamanian. Teasley studied English literature and Creative Writing at UCLA. [9] She studied art on summer scholarship at Otis/Parsons. Her first job was a paid internship with the Los Angeles Times , and then she worked as a researcher for Forbes magazine . [10]

Art

Lisa Teasley is also a visual artist. As a painter, she has had a one-woman show at the Watts Towers Art Center, [11] with John Outterbridge as director and curator. Her group shows include Brockman Gallery, [11] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Rental & Sales Gallery, [11] and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. [11] Teasley was a member of the former art collective HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican?, aka the Yams, who debuted their first film at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. [11]

Bibliography

Anthologies

Short stories

Essays

Poetry

Awards and honors

Literary Journals

Black Clock

Zyzzyva

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