Lisa Shea


Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Disciplines: Literature – fiction
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 1987, 2005

Lisa Shea is an American novelist and the author of Hula (1994). She was the recipient of a 1993 Whiting Award.

At MacDowell in 2005, Lisa continued work on her novel Offspring. Her essay on step-families will be included in a Simon & Schuster anthology titled My Mother Married Your Father in 2006.

Studios

New Jersey

Lisa Shea worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the…

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