Lisa Borders

Lisa Borders is the author of the novels Cloud Cuckoo Land, chosen by Pat Conroy as the winner of River City Publishing's Fred Bonnie Award and a Massachusetts Book Awards honoree, and The Fifty-First State. A frequent humor contributor at McSweeney' s, her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Rumpus, Cognoscenti, Post Road and other journals. She lives in Central Massachusetts with her partner and two rescue cats.