Lisa Teasley
{{Short description|American writer and artist}}
{{Infobox writer
| image = File:Lisa_Teasley_in_LA_2015.jpeg
| birth_date = July 22, 1964
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| occupation = Author
| genre = Literary Fiction
| notableworks = Dive, Heat Signature, Glow in the Dark
}}
Lisa Teasley is an American writer and artist. Her first book, the story collection Glow in the Dark (2002){{Cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2002/03/26/adventures-in-the-skin-trade/|title=Adventures in the Skin Trade {{!}} Village Voice|access-date=2017-09-01}} won the Gold Pen and Pacificus Foundation{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTWu0aSofkkC&q=lisa+teasley+pacificus&pg=PA644|title=Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers|last=Page|first=Yolanda Williams|date=2007-01-30|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313334290}} awards. Her second and third books, the novels Dive (2004){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dive00teas|title=Dive|last=Teasley|first=Lisa|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2004|isbn=9781582343983|edition=1st U.S.|location=New York|oclc=52602745}} and Heat Signature (2006),{{Cite book|title=Heat signature : a novel|last=Teasley|first=Lisa|publisher=Bloomsbury Pub.|year=2006|isbn=9781596919204|edition=1st U.S.|location=New York|oclc=607775184}} address gender, race, intercultural and justice issues. She is the writer and presenter of the BBC television documentary “High School Prom” (2006).{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2697824/|title=Lisa Teasley|website=IMDb|access-date=2017-09-01}} She is the Senior Editor, Fiction for the Los Angeles Review of Books.{{Cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/about/masthead/|title=Masthead - Los Angeles Review of Books|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=2017-09-01}} She lives in Los Angeles.{{Cite news|url=http://laist.com/2005/09/06/laist_interview_lisa_teasley.php|title=LAist Interview: Lisa Teasley|work=LAist|access-date=2017-09-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105235509/http://laist.com/2005/09/06/laist_interview_lisa_teasley.php|archive-date=2017-11-05|url-status=dead}}
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.{{Cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2002/feb/24/news/lv-teasley24/2|title=Words From a Street-Smart Tale Teller|last=Johnson|first=Reed|date=2002-02-24|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-09-01|issn=0458-3035}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.laweekly.com/arts/chewing-tobacco-and-big-feet-2138303|title=Chewing Tobacco and Big Feet|last=Nicholson|first=Joy|date=2004-05-27|work=L.A. Weekly|access-date=2018-12-02}}
Art
Lisa Teasley is also a visual artist. As a painter, she has had a one-woman show at the Watts Towers Art Center,{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebroad.org/programs/summer-happenings-broad-oracle|title=Summer Happenings at The Broad: Oracle|website=thebroad.org|access-date=2018-12-02}} with John Outterbridge as director and curator. Her group shows include Brockman Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Rental & Sales Gallery, and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Teasley was a member of the former art collective HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican?, aka the Yams, who debuted their first film at the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
Bibliography
- Glow in the Dark, Cloth, 2002, Cune Press{{Cite book|title=Glow in the dark|last=Teasley|first=Lisa|publisher=Cune Press|year=2002|isbn=9781885942197|edition=1st|location=Seattle|oclc=49218676}}
- Dive, Cloth, 2004, Bloomsbury
- Heat Signature, paperback, 2006 Bloomsbury
- Dive, paperback, 2006, Bloomsbury{{Cite book|title=Dive : a NOVEL.|last=Teasley|first=Lisa|date=2006|publisher=Bloomsbury Usa|isbn=9781582344744|location=New York|oclc=141382308}}
- Glow in the Dark, paperback, 2006, Bloomsbury{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/glow-in-the-dark-9781582344676/|title=Glow in the Dark|last=Bloomsbury.com|website=Bloomsbury Publishing|access-date=2017-09-01}}
Anthologies
= Short stories =
- Joyland, Retro Volume 1, No. 3, 2013{{Cite book|title=Retro Vol. 1 No 3: Selections from Joyland Magazine|last1=Davis|first1=Brian Joseph|last2=Halper|first2=Jenny|last3=Menlove|first3=Leia|last4=Urbanski|first4=Debbie|last5=Gray|first5=Amelia|last6=Gay|first6=Roxane|last7=Robinson|first7=Shannon|last8=Fiorentino|first8=Jon Paul|last9=Warnes|first9=Bryce|date=2013-05-02|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|isbn=9781482736984}}
- Women on the Edge, Toby Press, 2005{{Cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=%25A0Women+on+the+Edge%252C+Toby+Press%252C+2005&sts=t|title=A0women on the Edge 2c Toby Press 2c 2005 - AbeBooks|website=abebooks.com|access-date=2017-09-01}}
- Shaking the Tree, Norton, 2003{{Cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780393050677/17916881686|title=9780393050677: Shaking the Tree: A Collection of Fiction and Memoir by Black Women - AbeBooks: 039305067X|website=abebooks.com|access-date=2017-09-01}}
- Brown Sugar 4, published by Simon & Schuster, 2005{{Cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=%25A0Brown+Sugar+4%252C+published+by+Simon+%2526+Schuster%252C+2005&sts=t|title=A0brown Sugar 4 2c Published by Simon 26 Schuster 2c 2005 - AbeBooks|website=abebooks.com|access-date=2017-09-01}}
- Brown Sugar 3, Simon & Schuster, 2004{{Cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780743466868/14622136085|title=9780743466868: Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract - AbeBooks: 0743466861|website=abebooks.com|access-date=2017-09-01}}
- Brown Sugar 1, Atria, 2001{{Cite book|title=Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction|date=2001-01-02|publisher=Plume|isbn=9780452282247|editor-last=Taylor|editor-first=Carol|edition=Gift Inscription on Fep|location=New York|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780739416075}}
- Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Wiley, 2000{{Cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780471380603/20036226920|title=9780471380603: Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature - AbeBooks: 0471380601|website=abebooks.com|access-date=2017-09-01}}
- In The Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers, Harlem River Press, 2000{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/intradition00kevi|title=In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers|last=Powell|first=Kevin|date=October 1992|publisher=Writers & Readers|isbn=9780863163159|editor-last=Baraka|editor-first=Ras|location=New York}}
= Essays =
- Because I Said So, HarperCollins, 2005{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Because-Said-So-Children-Themselves-ebook/dp/B000FCK66G|title=Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves|last1=Moses|first1=Kate|last2=Peri|first2=Camille|date=2009-10-13|publisher=HarperCollins e-books}}
- An Ear to the Ground, Cune Press, 1997{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/eartoground00scot|title=An Ear to the Ground: Essays from 75 New American Writers Plus Guest Writers Vaclav Havel, Horton Foote, and Arun Gandhi|date=August 1997|publisher=Cune Press|isbn=9781885942562|editor-last=Davis|editor-first=Scott C.|edition=Gift Inscription on Fep|location=Seattle, WA}}
= Poetry =
Awards and honors
- Gold Pen 2002{{Cite web|url=https://www.fictiondb.com/awards/2002~gold-pen-award~93.htm|title=2002 Gold Pen Award Winners|website=fictiondb.com|access-date=2017-09-01}}
- Pacificus Foundation 2002
Literary Journals
= [[Black Clock]] =
- 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)
= [[Zyzzyva (magazine)|Zyzzyva]] =
- Issue 99, 2013, “Full Circle”
References
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External links
- [http://www.lisateasley.com/ Official site]
- [https://www.villagevoice.com/2002/03/26/adventures-in-the-skin-trade/ Review of Glow in the Dark in the Village Voice] by Greg Tate
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/books/books-in-brief-fiction-poetry-766216.html?mcubz=0 Review of Dive in The New York Times Book Review] by Jeff Turin
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Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)