Lisa Cooper Ellison is an author, speaker, and trauma-informed writing coach with an education specialist degree in clinical mental health counseling. She has spent the last two decades helping clients and students turn difficult experiences into art, and teaches courses in memoir, the psychology of writing, and the book proposal. Lisa is a regular contributor to the Jane Friedman blog and host of the Writing Your Resilience podcast. Her essays have appeared in HuffPost, Hippocampus Magazine, and Kenyon Review, among others.
