A classically trained dancer before she was a writer, Lisa Poisso holds degrees in both her passions: ballet and journalism. As a writer, she started out in magazines, then moved into corporate communications and public relations. She later launched her own company, where she produced marketing and public relations work for local and national clients.
She has written about parenting and the environment at SuperEco.com, North Texas Natural Family (as founder and editor-in-chief for 8 years), Natural Family Online, Atlanta Parent, DallasChild, Georgia Family, Houston Family, Kindred, Pittsburgh Parent, San Diego Family and Sydney’s Child. Read a sampling of Lisa’s parenting work in Read: Family, at right.
Lisa writes about video games at WoW.com, Massively.com and AOL’s Play Savvy. She has also worked on gaming books and articles for roleplaying publishers. See a sampling of Lisa’s gaming clips in Read: Gaming, at right.
Award-winning writing
Lisa’s professional accolades include two Parenting Publications of America Gold Awards for feature writing, a Katie Award for Best Investigative News Story (Magazines) and multiple National Federation of Press Women gold awards. Her investigative journalism has been recognized twice with the Dallas Bar Association’s Stephen Philbin Award.
Editors on Lisa’s work
“Here’s real journalism. Through exhaustive research, probing interviews and startling statistics, the series explores the roots of an urgent problem and pokes holes in a government plan to throw money at it. Shocking leads pull parents into stories they won’t put down.” – Parenting Publications of America, Gold Award for a Special Series, “Overhauling Child Protective Services”
“Lisa … handles the challenges of a fast-paced online publishing environment with aplomb. She continually innovates and reliably delivers creative and effective feature ideas that resonate with readership.” — Barb Dybwad, Senior Editor, Mashable
“Though Lisa is an excellent writer, I have worked with countless excellent writers. What makes Lisa stand out as one of the best I’ve had the pleasure of working with is her commitment to her projects. She not only provides us with great (and sometimes terribly ambitious) project ideas, but also follows through on getting them completed, on schedule, every time.” –Elizabeth Harper, Editor-in-Chief, AOL/Weblogs Inc.
“Lisa is a conscientious, professional and detail-oriented editor-in-chief. At Natural Family Online, Lisa effectively managed a diverse telecommuting team of editors and freelance writers. Lisa’s keen editorial eye and creative vision invigorated and relevantly expanded content at Natural Family Online and subsequently increased readership. I learned a great deal in a short period of time from Lisa.” — Jacque Shannon-McNulty, Babies & Children Channel Editor, Natural Family Online
Contact
Contact Lisa at bylisapoisso (at) gmail (dot) com.
2 Comments
October 8, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Lisa,
Thanks for your lovely blog with thoughtful articles. I have thought about the dilemma of GPSing my child.
I have a new article idea for you. I am a Stress Relief Trainer. Stress Relief Training integrates ancient Eastern consciousness practices and modern Western science to form a system that is immediately effective, practiced in only a few minutes each day, and can be learned in just an hour or two. You can read more about my work at StressReliefTraining.com.
If you would like to write an article about stress relief, I can provide quite a bit of information. Or perhaps better yet, I can offer you, or someone you know, a free Stress Relief telephone session and you could write about that experience.
Thanks, I look forward to hearing from you.
Be well,
Aaron
AaronGaul@Gmail.com
October 8, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Thanks for the feedback, Aaron! I appreciate your stopping by and will most certainly keep you in mind as a resource for articles on stress relief.
Peace ~
Lisa