Lisa Teasley is the author of the acclaimed novels Heat Signature and Dive, and the award-winning story collection, Glow in the Dark, published by Bloomsbury. Her frequently anthologized essays, stories, and poems have appeared in publications and media such as National Public Radio, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Essence, Zyzzyva, Joyland, and Black Clock. She is writer and presenter of the BBC television documentary “High School Prom” and senior fiction editor at Los Angeles Review of Books. A painter as well, she is represented by the Marie Baldwin Gallery.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Ecstatic Communion: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Seasons Quartet Conclusion, “Summer”
With “Summer,” the conclusion to his Seasons quartet, Norwegian maestro Karl Ove Knausgaard provides a master class in creating reader-writer intimacy....
Hungry Ghosts: Sex and the Sixth Sense
On following and straying from the 'righteous' path of desire...
The Three Gunas: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
On Marriage, Writer’s Block and Transcendence...
