Lisa Odham Stokes

Lisa Odham Stokes wears two hats, as an academic and fiction writer. She is professor emeritus of Humanities/Film Studies at Seminole State College; she’s a firm believer in the power of education. She grew up in Central Florida and has deep southern roots. Her study and publications are inter-disciplinary. She is the co-author of City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema and author of The Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema and the monograph Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s “He’s a Woman, She’s a Man.” She’s presented and published numerous papers, and was a long-time Florida Film Festival programmer. She earned degrees from Emory University (undergraduate, summa cum laude), the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Master’s in English Literature), and the University of Florida (Ph.D., in American Literature). She is a thoughtful and serious person with a dry sense of humor who loves reading, watching movies, and travelling; she leads a quiet life but enjoys close friends. She is a dog person. She is an enthusiastic line dancer. Her first foray into fiction, Catz, a love story, came from a dream about being befriended big cats.