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]
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
- Glow in the Dark, Cloth, 2002, Cune Press[12]
- Dive, Cloth, 2004, Bloomsbury[4]
- Heat Signature, paperback, 2006 Bloomsbury[5]
- Dive, paperback, 2006, Bloomsbury[13]
- Glow in the Dark, paperback, 2006, Bloomsbury[14]
Anthologies
Short stories
- Joyland, Retro Volume 1, No. 3, 2013[15]
- Women on the Edge, Toby Press, 2005[16]
- Shaking the Tree, Norton, 2003[17]
- Brown Sugar 4, published by Simon & Schuster, 2005[18]
- Brown Sugar 3, Simon & Schuster, 2004[19]
- Brown Sugar 1, Atria, 2001[20]
- Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Wiley, 2000[21]
- In The Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers, Harlem River Press, 2000[22]
Essays
Poetry
- Beyond the Frontier, Black Classic Press, 2002[25]
Awards and honors
Literary Journals
- Issue 5, Spring Summer 2006, “Modus Operandi”;
- Issue 7, Spring Summer 2007 “Late Blooming;
- Issue 10, Spring Summer 2009, “Joie de Vivre”;
- Issue 12, Spring Summer 2010, “Beach Volleyball is Church”;
- Issue 13, Fall/Winter 2010, “Mixed Tape” greatest hits issue “Joie de Vivre”;
- Issue 21, Spring Summer 2016, “Bang” (The Elephant Talker)
- Issue 99, 2013, “Full Circle”
References
- ^ "Adventures in the Skin Trade | Village Voice". Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ a b "2002 Gold Pen Award Winners". fictiondb.com. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ a b Page, Yolanda Williams (2007-01-30). Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313334290.
- ^ a b Teasley, Lisa (2004). Dive (1st U.S. ed.). New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781582343983. OCLC 52602745.
- ^ a b Teasley, Lisa (2006). Heat signature : a novel (1st U.S. ed.). New York: Bloomsbury Pub. ISBN 9781596919204. OCLC 607775184.
- ^ "Lisa Teasley". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ "Masthead - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ "LAist Interview: Lisa Teasley". LAist. Archived from the original on 2017-11-05. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ Johnson, Reed (2002-02-24). "Words From a Street-Smart Tale Teller". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-09-01.[dead link]
- ^ Nicholson, Joy (2004-05-27). "Chewing Tobacco and Big Feet". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
- ^ a b c d e "Summer Happenings at The Broad: Oracle". thebroad.org. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
- ^ Teasley, Lisa (2002). Glow in the dark (1st ed.). Seattle: Cune Press. ISBN 9781885942197. OCLC 49218676.
- ^ Teasley, Lisa (2006). Dive : a NOVEL. New York: Bloomsbury Usa. ISBN 9781582344744. OCLC 141382308.
- ^ Bloomsbury.com. "Glow in the Dark". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ Davis, Brian Joseph; Halper, Jenny; Menlove, Leia; Urbanski, Debbie; Gray, Amelia; Gay, Roxane; Robinson, Shannon; Fiorentino, Jon Paul; Warnes, Bryce (2013-05-02). Retro Vol. 1 No 3: Selections from Joyland Magazine. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781482736984.
- ^ "A0women on the Edge 2c Toby Press 2c 2005 - AbeBooks". abebooks.com. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ "9780393050677: Shaking the Tree: A Collection of Fiction and Memoir by Black Women - AbeBooks: 039305067X". abebooks.com. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ "A0brown Sugar 4 2c Published by Simon 26 Schuster 2c 2005 - AbeBooks". abebooks.com. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ "9780743466868: Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract - AbeBooks: 0743466861". abebooks.com. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ Taylor, Carol, ed. (2001-01-02). Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction (Gift Inscription on Fep ed.). New York: Plume. ISBN 9780452282247.
- ^ "9780471380603: Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature - AbeBooks: 0471380601". abebooks.com. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ^ Powell, Kevin (October 1992). Baraka, Ras (ed.). In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers. New York: Writers & Readers. ISBN 9780863163159.
- ^ Moses, Kate; Peri, Camille (2009-10-13). Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves. HarperCollins e-books.
- ^ Davis, Scott C., ed. (August 1997). An Ear to the Ground: Essays from 75 New American Writers Plus Guest Writers Vaclav Havel, Horton Foote, and Arun Gandhi (Gift Inscription on Fep ed.). Seattle, WA: Cune Press. ISBN 9781885942562.
- ^ "9781574780178: Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century - AbeBooks: 1574780174". abebooks.com. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
External links
- Official site
- Review of Glow in the Dark in the Village Voice by Greg Tate
- Review of Dive in The New York Times Book Review by Jeff Turin
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