Lisa Garrigues (New Jersey writer)
For Lisa Garrigues (California writer), see Lisa Gale Garrigues
Lisa Garrigues is a New Jersey writer and teacher whose 2007 book, Writing Motherhood, depicted "creative ways to capture and communicate the essence of motherhood."[1]
Biography
Garrigues earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in English education from Teachers College, Columbia University. After college she worked in corporate communications and then for nonprofit organizations, including the National Gallery of Art and Wellesley College. In 2004, she won the Paul and Kate Farmer Writing Award for the most distinguished article published in English Journal, and in 2007 she was awarded a "Women of Inspiration" award by the Association of Women Business Owners and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
She has led classes and workshops in writing memoirs, many of them just for women. A certified teacher of English in both New York and New Jersey, Garrigues has taught in middle and high schools.
Personal
In 2009 she was living in Ridgewood, New Jersey, with her husband, Mark, and their two children.