Lisa A. Watts

Lisa A. Watts has worked as a magazine writer and editor and nonprofit communications manager. A child of the East Coast, she grew up in Atlanta, Baltimore, and Boston before marrying and raising kids in Connecticut, Ohio, and North Carolina. Her anthology, Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2006), won the 2008 Ohioana Citation Award. She and her husband, Bob Malekoff, and their elderly pup, Juno, split time between Greensboro, NC, and Barrington, RI.