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Lisa Francesca

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San Francisco, The United States

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Biography, Poetry, Nonfiction

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The author of The Wedding Officiant’s Guide: How to Write and Conduct a Perfect Ceremony (Chronicle Books) and Helen and The Masters: A Portrait of A California Mystic (KDP), Lisa Francesca’s essays and poetry have appeared in AboutPlace Journal, Catamaran, Beatitude and Reed Magazine.
Find out more at www.lisafrancesca.com.
When not writing or reading, Lisa gets to borrow her daughter's small white dog for walks.

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Average rating: 4.29 · 225 ratings · 33 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

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Musical Tables: Poems

by Billy Collins

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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

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The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock, #1)

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The story of two really fascinating people, told at a galloping pace. I ended up deeply sympathetic to both of them.
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Lisa Francesca made a comment on Matt Lennert’s review of Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism " Try Ninth Street Women for even more background in New York art of the 30s, 40s, 50s, and a lot of colorful Bohemian lifestyle. They also had beauty a ...more "
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