Lise Funderburg's latest book is a curated collection of original essays from 25 writers, Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents (Nebraska). While at MacDowell, she worked on her memoir/social history, Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home (Free Press). Her first book, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity (Morrow), has become a core text in the study of American multiracial identity. Funderburg's essays, reviews, and feature articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, National Geographic, Salon, Chattahoochee Review, Broad Street, and the Nation. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and the Paris Writers Workshop, and she is the Nonfiction Editor of Cleaver magazine.
Portrait by Giorgia Fenelli
