Not only is Lisa Fugard a profound writer with rave reviews in the New York Times, she is also the catalyst and inspiration behind the Her Story event!
Lisa Fugard a celebrated Hay House author participates in writers workshops across the United States. Managing Director of The Women’s Business Momentum Center, Marianne Emma Jeff attended one of these magical workshops. During the workshop Lisa shared a pivotal writing exercise based on completing the sentences “I used to…” “And now I…”. Out of this simple yet powerful exercise Her Story was born. At the Her Story Day of inspiration, motivation and connection for women you can enjoy 20 women answering “I used to… and now I…” and also have the opportunity to submit your story and play with the exercise too in mini workshops throughout the day.
Lisa Fugard was born in South Africa and came to the United States in 1980. Lisa Fugard was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the only child of playwright Athol Fugard and novelist Sheila Meiring Fugard. She moved to New York City in 1980 to pursue an acting career, and has garnered numerous stage and film roles, including Isabel Dyson in the original production of her father’s My Children! My Africa!
.After working in theater, performing in New York, London, and South Africa, she turned her attention to writing. Her short stories have been published in Story, Outside, and numerous literary magazines. Her many travel articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times. Her first novel, Skinner’s Drift, a powerful story of family secrets set in the harshly beautiful landscape of rural South Africa, was named a notable book of 2006 by the New York Times. Skinner’s Drift was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the runner-up for the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Lisa lives in Southern California where she leads writing workshops and is working on her second novel.
She, her husband, and son (born 2004), have lived in the desert of Southern California since early 2002, in Borrego Springs and Encinitas, on the coast north of San Diego, not far from where her parents now live.
Web: http://lisafugard.com/LF/Lisa_fugard_2.html
Questions for the author may be sent to: lisa@lisafugard.com