Lisa Couturier - Class of 1980


photo by Sterling Photography

Lisa Couturier, a former articles editor for Redbook and New Woman magazines, has published articles and book reviews in many national publications, including Redbook; New Woman; Wildlife Conservation: The Magazine of the New York Zoological Society; E: The Environmental Magazine; Women's Sports Traveler; and First for Women, among others. Her nature essays appear or are forthcoming in the following books: American Nature Writing 1998 (Sierra Club books); The River Reader (Lyons Press); American Nature Writing 2000, A Celebration of Women Writers (Oregon State University Press); The Mountain Reader (Lyons Press, due July 2000); and Heart of a Nation (National Geographic Books, due November 2000). (All of these books are available through Amazon.com or the local bookstore.) 

In 1984, she appeared with Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy in a PBS documentary entitled "Writers Writing," which aired nationally in 1985 and 1986. She holds a Master's degree in creative writing and environmental studies from New York University. Two years ago, she relocated from New York City to Washington. She teaches personal essay writing at the Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland and is a Contributing Editor for the Potomac Review: A Magazine of Literature and Nature. 
 
In bookstores now or arriving soon:

Book: Heart of a Nation:
Writers and Photographers Inspired by the American Landscape

Essay: "Rediscovering the Potomac"
 

Book: American Nature Writing 2000:
A Celebration of Women Writers

Essay: "A Banishment of Crows"
 

Book: The River Reader
Essay: "Reversing the Tides"

Book: American Nature Writing 1998
Essay: "Walking in the Woods"

 
Books & Magazines featuring Lisa's work: in bookstores sometime October 2000-July 2001:
 

The
Mountain Reader

Potomac
Review

Reading Urban
Nature Writing

Essay collection
edited by John Murray
Magazine of
Literature & nature
Essay collection
edited by Terell Dixon
 

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