Lisa Teasley

　　Lisa Teasley is the author of the acclaimed novels Heat Signature and Dive. Her Glow in the Dark is winner of the Gold Pen and Pacificus Foundation Awards. Teasley's past awards include: the May Merrill Miller Award, the National Society of Arts & Letters Award, and the Amaranth Review Award.

　　Her essays and stories have been much anthologized, some have been translated into French and Arabic. Teasley has taught fiction in numerous writing programs including Cal Arts MFA Creative Writing Program, University of California, Riverside, UCLA and Antioch University. Teasley was also the sole judge for the prestigious Henfield Fiction Prize, 2013 at UC Irvine Writing Program. She participated in numerous world literary festivals.

　　She is a writer and presenter of the BBC Television documentary,"High School Prom", and is a member of the art collective How Do You Say Yam in African, who debuted their film "Good Stock on the Dimension Floor" at the 2014 Whitney Biennial in New York.