Also known as "Elisabeth Rose," I earned my BA in English at West Chester Univeristy, then my MA in English Literature and my MFA in Fiction Writing at Penn State University. I now write, work, and run with my Border collie, Mick on the Gulf Coast of Florida.

I'm the author of the novel, Body Sharers (Rutgers University Press) and the memoir For the Love of a Dog (Harmony Books). Body Sharers placed among the top-five finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Best First Novel, The Washington Prize for Fiction, and the AWP Intro Awards. My recent work has appeared in Superstition Review, The Tampa Review Online, Sugar Mule Literary Magazine, Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, and Ascent Literary Magazine. My essay, “Turnpike Psycho,” won the 2013 Florida Review Editors’ Choice Award for Nonfiction.

In other words, I have occasionally written well. For more about my writing and social media activity, "friend me on Facebook, go to lisalanserrose.com or find me on LinkedIn, at http://www.linkedin.com/in/lisalanserrose/ .

I have taught creative and effective writing for over twenty years.  For the last nine years, I taught literary analysis in the International Baccalaureate Program. In the early 2000s, I directed the Writing Center and taught effective writing at Eckerd College. Previously, I was a professor of creative nonfiction writing at Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, PA, where I also directed the Writing Center. As a Writing Center Director, I trained tutors to assist their peers in all kinds of writing, from creative to analytic to technical to business writing. For over a decade, I worked as a writing center tutor and as an instructor, teaching composition and creative writing at Penn State. I have also worked as a freelance writer and editor. I even spent a year as a full-time business writer and copywriter for an advertising firm. 

I see myself as a writer first and as a writing coach second. Drawing on my professional experience to help my students accomplish their writing goals gives me honest-to-goodness credibility. People may say, "Those who can do, those who can't teach," but I'm here on this earth saying I can do both. But, I can't do it without you. Talk to me. Let me know what you need.