
Lisa Towles
IBM
- Oakland CA
Creative, dynamic speaker in areas of Technical/Documentation Writing and Fiction Writing
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Biography
Industry Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Published Mystery Author
2012-01-01
Lisa is the published author of 4 commercially-available mystery novels - read more about them on her personal website: www.lisapolisar.com. This is ongoing and Lisa has been writing novels and short fiction for the past 20 years. Her work is widely published in literary journals and commercial magazines.
Author of Short Fiction
2012-01-01
Lisa has had her short fiction widely published in a variety of literary journals, literary magazines, newspapers, and websites. Read more about her short fiction at www.lisapolisar.com
Award-winning Journalist
2007-01-01
Lisa won two journalism awards in 2004 for her art reviews published in Crosswinds Weekly, a weekly arts and entertainment for which she was a regular contributor. When Lisa lived in New Mexico, she wrote for over 15 local publications, including features, profiles, art reviews, and book reviews. Her nonfiction articles have also been published in online magazine. She has also written technical articles for engineering magazines, including CONTROL.
Education
University of Hartford/Hartt School of Music
Bachelor of Music
Music (Flute performance) and Psychology
1988
plus graduate credits in psychology
University of Exeter
None
Psychology and Music
Studied her ein 1989
Affiliations
- IBM
- Mystery Writers of America
- Society for Technical Communication
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