Lisa Teasley Explained

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)^[1] won the Gold Pen and Pacificus Foundation^[2] awards. Her second and third books, the novels Dive (2004)^[3] and Heat Signature (2006),^[4] address gender, race, intercultural and justice issues. She is the writer and presenter of the BBC television documentary “High School Prom” (2006).^[5] She is the Senior Editor, Fiction for the Los Angeles Review of Books.^[6] She lives in Los Angeles.^[7]

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.^[8] 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.^[9]

Art

Lisa Teasley is also a visual artist. As a painter, she has had a one-woman show at the Watts Towers Art Center,^[10] 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^[11]
• Dive, Cloth, 2004, Bloomsbury
• Heat Signature, paperback, 2006 Bloomsbury
• Dive, paperback, 2006, Bloomsbury^[12]
• Glow in the Dark, paperback, 2006, Bloomsbury^[13]

Anthologies

Short stories

• Joyland, Retro Volume 1, No. 3, 2013^[14]
• Women on the Edge, Toby Press, 2005^[15]
• Shaking the Tree, Norton, 2003^[16]
• Brown Sugar 4, published by Simon & Schuster, 2005^[17]
• Brown Sugar 3, Simon & Schuster, 2004^[18]
• Brown Sugar 1, Atria, 2001^[19]
• Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature, Wiley, 2000^[20]
• In The Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers, Harlem River Press, 2000^[21]

Essays

• Because I Said So, HarperCollins, 2005^[22]
• An Ear to the Ground, Cune Press, 1997^[23]

Poetry

• Beyond the Frontier, Black Classic Press, 2002^[24]

Awards and honors

• Gold Pen 2002^[25]
• Pacificus Foundation 2002

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”

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Adventures in the Skin Trade Village Voice. 2017-09-01.
2. Book: Page, Yolanda Williams. Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. 2007-01-30. Greenwood Publishing Group. 9780313334290.
3. Book: Teasley, Lisa. Dive. Bloomsbury. 2004. 9781582343983. 1st U.S.. New York. 52602745.
4. Book: Teasley, Lisa. Heat signature : a novel. Bloomsbury Pub.. 2006. 9781596919204. 1st U.S.. New York. 607775184.
5. Web site: Lisa Teasley. IMDb. 2017-09-01.
6. News: Masthead - Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books. 2017-09-01.
7. News: LAist Interview: Lisa Teasley. LAist. 2017-09-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20171105235509/http://laist.com/2005/09/06/laist_interview_lisa_teasley.php. 2017-11-05. dead.
8. News: Words From a Street-Smart Tale Teller. Johnson. Reed. 2002-02-24. Los Angeles Times. 2017-09-01. 0458-3035.
9. News: Chewing Tobacco and Big Feet. Nicholson. Joy. 2004-05-27. L.A. Weekly. 2018-12-02.
10. Web site: Summer Happenings at The Broad: Oracle. thebroad.org. 2018-12-02.
11. Book: Teasley, Lisa. Glow in the dark. Cune Press. 2002. 9781885942197. 1st. Seattle. 49218676.
12. Book: Teasley, Lisa. Dive : a NOVEL.. 2006. Bloomsbury Usa. 9781582344744. New York. 141382308.
13. Web site: Glow in the Dark. Bloomsbury.com. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2017-09-01.
14. Book: Retro Vol. 1 No 3: Selections from Joyland Magazine. Davis. Brian Joseph. Halper. Jenny. Menlove. Leia. Urbanski. Debbie. Gray. Amelia. Gay. Roxane. Robinson. Shannon. Fiorentino. Jon Paul. Warnes. Bryce. 2013-05-02. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 9781482736984.
15. Web site: A0women on the Edge 2c Toby Press 2c 2005 - AbeBooks. abebooks.com. 2017-09-01.
16. Web site: 9780393050677: Shaking the Tree: A Collection of Fiction and Memoir by Black Women - AbeBooks: 039305067X. abebooks.com. 2017-09-01.
17. Web site: A0brown Sugar 4 2c Published by Simon 26 Schuster 2c 2005 - AbeBooks. abebooks.com. 2017-09-01.
18. Web site: 9780743466868: Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract - AbeBooks: 0743466861. abebooks.com. 2017-09-01.
19. Book: Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction. 2001-01-02. Plume. 9780452282247. Taylor. Carol. Gift Inscription on Fep. New York. registration.
20. Web site: 9780471380603: Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature - AbeBooks: 0471380601. abebooks.com. 2017-09-01.
21. Book: Powell, Kevin. In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers. October 1992. Writers & Readers. 9780863163159. Baraka. Ras. New York.
22. Book: Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves. Moses. Kate. Peri. Camille. 2009-10-13. HarperCollins e-books.
23. Book: An Ear to the Ground: Essays from 75 New American Writers Plus Guest Writers Vaclav Havel, Horton Foote, and Arun Gandhi. August 1997. Cune Press. 9781885942562. Davis. Scott C.. Gift Inscription on Fep. Seattle, WA.
24. Web site: 9781574780178: Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century - AbeBooks: 1574780174. abebooks.com. 2017-09-01.
25. Web site: 2002 Gold Pen Award Winners. fictiondb.com. 2017-09-01.