Lisa Groen Braner was called to write at a young age. “I started with bad poetry and kept trying,” she says. Lisa’s early writing flourished in personal journals and letters to friends. “Writing allows me to process my life on another level, and a wiser perspective often emerges from the page,” she adds.

In the 90s, after graduating from the University of Utah with a BS in economics, she packed her car and moved to Washington DC. Lisa landed a position with the leading business ethics consulting firm at the time, and worked with Fortune 100 business leaders who were often featured in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. She traveled throughout North America and parts of Europe. It was a good job, "a résumé kind of position," but as she says, “I envied the violinist who played outside of my Metro stop for small change each morning.”  Like a crisp violin sonata that rises within the cement walls of a subway station, the call to a creative life was impossible to ignore. She quit her job and reclaimed her writing.

Lisa has served as editor of an international magazine and several newsletters, and has published articles on motherhood, parenting and health. In 2009, she received her MFA degree in creative nonfiction and fiction from Spalding University. In addition to her first book—The Mother’s Book of Well-Being—Lisa’s writing has been featured on public radio, literary and popular magazines, and in the anthology The Fourth Genre. Most recently, she published an essay in Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction.