Lisa Mecham is an artist living in California. Through writing, editing and cultural curation, she creates opportunities for transformation—both personal and collective—where we can confront the parts of ourselves we’ve hidden away.

Lisa’s work has appeared in The New York Times: Tiny Modern Love, Roxane Gay’s bestselling anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture and Huffpost Personal where her essay about ending her marriage went viral. As an editor, she’s worked with The Rumpus as a Senior Features Editor and is a freelance manuscript consultant.

Lisa is finishing a book about what happens to a family when mental illness is hidden beneath the veneer of suburban perfection and editing an anthology, Happy After: Women Thriving In Divorce. Her digital archive project, Finding Judy, is preserving and sharing the life of Judith Shahn—a prolific yet unsung artist of the mid-20th century. 

Represented by Sarah Bowlin /Aevitas Creative

Author photo by Elena Ray
Website images courtesy of Amy Bennett and Gallery Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm

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