Lisa Borders

Lisa Borders is a novelist, humorist and essayist. Her third novel, Last Night at the Disco – a dark comedy set in the disco era – was published this fall. She is the author of two previous novels, The Fifty-First State and Cloud Cuckoo Land, the latter chosen by Pat Conroy as the winner of River City Publishing’s Fred Bonnie Award and a 2003 Massachusetts Book Awards honoree. A frequent humor contributor at McSweeney’s, she has published essays in Cognoscenti, The Rumpus, Past Ten and Post Road. She lives in Central Massachusetts with her partner and two rescue cats.