Lisa Pasold is a writer and journalist who divides her time between Paris and Toronto. She is also co-organizer of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Her first book of poetry, Weave, appeared in 2004 from Frontenac House (Calgary). Stephen Osborne in Geist magazine called the book "quite simply a masterpiece: there is more in these eighty odd pages than in most novels."
Her second book of poetry, A Bad Year for Journalists, appeared in 2006 and was nominated for an Alberta Book Award. The Globe and Mail called this new poetry collection "critical, darkly funny and painstakingly lyrical." Her third book, Rats of Las Vegas, a novel, has just appeared from Enfield & Wizenty (Winnipeg).
Lisa has taught Creative Writing at the American University in Paris; she has also led workshops writing family history & memoir for the Paris Writers' Workshop and WICE (Women's Institute of Continuing Education, France). In 2007, she was writer-in-residence at the Berton Writer’s Retreat in Dawson City, Yukon, leading community writing workshops there.
This fall, she co-led a writing workshop with a group of children in the Jane & Finch area of Toronto. As a journalist, Lisa has published articles in newspapers and magazines such as The Globe and Mail, The Chicago Tribune, The National Post, Billboard Magazine and The San Francisco Chronicle.