About | lisafurness

Welcome ! Lisa is seeking representation as an author-illustrator.

Lisa is a creator. Since her poems and drawings were pasted into the family Christmas cards as a young girl, she has always been making art. While writing her father's eulogy many years later, she discovered she loved making people laugh and cry with her words. Lisa also enjoys people's heartfelt reactions when they receive her handmade house portraits through commissions and gifts.

Reading the classics to her own children and discovering new titles with the students she worked with as an educator, launched her journey for creating picture books. With her formal art background, she realized she had the ability to make people experience emotional connections through the picture book as an art form. This led her to create her own stories for children featuring relatable characters and themes with humor and heart.

Her illustrations are created traditionally with inked pen and watercolor and also digitally in Procreate.

Experience

Featured on the Rising Stars in Kidlit Blog by author Amanda Davis
Finalist in Justin Colon's #PBChat MentorshipTwitter Event
Honorable Mention Susanna Leonard Hill's Holiday Contest 2018
Member of Julie Hedlund's 12x12 Challenge since 2018
Member of Arree Chung's Storyteller Academy since 2017
Volunteer at Boston Writer's Day Workshops 2019
Big Sur Cape Cod Writing Workshop in 2017, 2019
Member of SCBWI since 2015
Illustrations featured on www.Kidlit411.com
Illustrated All For The Kid's Yoga For Children
SCBWI Critique group member since 2015
Past Member of Courage to Create with Bethany Hegedus
An educator for pre-K - second grade since 2008

Prior to writing and illustrating picture books, Lisa earned a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design before raising three boys. She has led after-school art programs for children and chaired local cultural events and fundraisers. When she is not writing, Lisa enjoys hosting family gatherings, painting and drawing house portraits, and making crafts with kids. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband of thirty-plus years.

Lisa's proudest achievement is

her family.

She is seeking representation to

join her on her creative journey

as an author-illustrator.