Lisa Bullard This is Me

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1. 1. The Loft Literary Center: Lisa Bullard

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   Published on: 6/12/2008   Last Visited: 6/12/2008

   Lisa BullardThe Loft Literary Center: Lisa Bullard
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   Lisa Bullard is the award-winning author of more than 30 books for children.Her newest book is You Can Write a Story: A Story-Writing Recipe for Kids.Lisa is also on the roster for the COMPAS "Writers & Artists in the Schools" Program, which gives her the chance to teach writing to students throughout Minnesota.Learn more about Lisa by visiting her Web site.

2. 2. The Loft Literary Center: Loft Instructor Lisa Bullard

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   Published on: 11/2/2007   Last Visited: 11/2/2007

   For additional information about Loft Teaching Fellow Lisa Bullard: The Loft Literary Center: Loft Instructor Lisa Bullard
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   "Lisa Bullard worked in the publishing industry for many years before becoming a writer. This experience helps makes her feedback practical, savvy and insightful. As a teacher she is generous, open and helpful. I highly recommend her classes to anyone interested in becoming a published writer for children!" â€"Loft student Ann Schulman "Lisa is always well prepared, highly conversant and has a full range of topics, insight and good strong points of view." "Lisa is an outstanding instructor.

3. 3. www.lisabullard.com

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   Published on: 5/2/2007   Last Visited: 5/2/2007

   Lisa went on to write stories, poems, novels, and comic strips all through her school years. Her first published piece came in grade school, with a letter to the editor about the plight of baby harp seals. She also practiced signing her autograph over and over because she was convinced that someday she would become a book author.
   
   A career in book publishing The first thing Lisa wanted to be when she grew up, even before she wanted to be a writer, was a shoe sales clerk. When that didn't happen as planned, she went on to spend sixteen years working in the book publishing industry. After graduating from the Denver Publishing Institute, she worked for Lerner Publications, one of the few remaining independent children's book publishers in the country. She then moved on to work at several small highly regarded literary presses: Graywolf, Coffee House, and New Rivers. During that time she was also an active member of the Twin Cities book community in other ways: she co-hosted a weekly program called "Write-On Radio" and worked with the Upper Midwest Booksellers Association and the Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable.
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   Lisa was inspired by her family's own crowded holiday get-togethers, but until she started meeting her readers, she had no idea just how many people have slept in a bathtub.
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   What's Lisa doing now? Lisa now works full-time as a freelance writer. She feeds her passion for children's literature in a variety of ways: writing new books, teaching writing at the Loft Literary Center, reviewing children's books, consulting with new writers about their manuscripts, and visiting schools to talk to students about writing and the publishing process.
   
   What Lisa does for fun Lisa enjoys unplanned road trips because they almost always lead to unexpected adventures: attending the Sturgis (South Dakota) motorcycle rally by mistake, surviving a bomb scare in Iowa, sleeping in a hotel conference room in Wisconsin because a lumberjack convention had booked all the other rooms. The experiences have added to her collection of snow globes from around the world. Lisa also likes listening to people's stories, floating in a cold northern lake, planting flowers, the North Woods, photography, the first snowfall, ice cream, mystery novels, twins, playing with her nephews and nieces, old books, and poetry that rhymes.
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   Lisa was born in Texasâ€"her grandpa called her "The Waco Kid"â€"but she mostly grew up in small Minnesota towns where the school bus regularly got stuck in massive snow banks. Some of her best memories are from her grade school years in Bemidji, Minnesota: ice fishing, sled dog races, hockey games, baton twirling, bike riding, the Paul Bunyan Amusement Park, and the Bemidji Public Library. Wherever she lived, Lisa spent a lot of her time reading books and then convincing the neighborhood kids to act out the stories.
   
   Where Lisa lives now Lisa's family now spends as much of the short summertime as they can at Green Lake near tiny Spicer, Minnesota. But Lisa normally lives in a great urban neighborhood only five minutes from the skyscrapers in downtown Minneapolis. Sometimes Pileated Woodpeckers visit her birdfeeder, looking like small dinosaurs that somehow missed the extinction. Her orange-and-white cats Rufus (long and lean) and Mutzi (small and round with no tail), often sit in the half-moon window in her upstairs office, looking out on the squirrels trying to steal the birdfeed while Lisa writes at her laptop.
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