Lisa Matison Garrigues is an award-winning writer and educator. She worked on a coming-of-age memoir inspired by the cooperative community where she grew up, Skyview Acres, which was founded in the 1940s by Quaker pacifists and artist-activists. Lisa teaches writing at Cabrillo College in California and leads workshops across the country. Her first book, Writing Motherhood, was published by Scribner in 2007.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Lisa Matison Garrigues
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Capitola, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012
Studios
Schelling
Lisa Matison Garrigues worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…