14 Facts About Lise Funderburg

Lise Kristin Funderburg was born on July 27,1959 and is an American writer and editor.

Lise Funderburg is the author of Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home, and Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity.

Lise Funderburg is the youngest of three daughters born to George Newton Funderburg and Marjorie Jeane Funderburg [nee Lievense].

Lise Funderburg attended the local kindergarten at Samuel Powel public school, then attended grades 1 through 12 at Friends' Central School, a private Quaker school located on the boundary line between the city and the Main Line suburbs.

Lise Funderburg soon moved to the Boston area, where she spent a year waitressing at Legal Sea Foods before she got her first job in publishing.

In 1988, Lise Funderburg moved to New York city, took a job as managing editor at Avenue magazine for almost two years, then went to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, from which she graduated in 1991.

Lise Funderburg has taught at Ohio State University, Rutgers University-Camden, the Paris American Academy, and, since 2003, at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lise Funderburg's specialty is creative nonfiction workshops, with an emphasis on revision.

In 2004, Funderburg married John Reynolds Howard, father to Lise's stepson.

Lise Funderburg continues to write, teach and edit from her base in Philadelphia.

Lise Funderburg is a public speaker, and has spoken at such venues as Colby College, Bard College, Bryn Mawr College, UC Santa Cruz, Community College of Philadelphia; New York University, The Southern Festival of Books, Rutgers University, Rhode Island College, Swarthmore College, and NonfictioNow.

Lise Funderburg conceived of, commissioned, and edited this anthology as a way to showcase and reflect on that pivotal moment in life when people realize they have turned into their parents.

Lise Funderburg's journalism has appeared in publications including The New York Times, TIME, Newsday, The Nation, O, the Oprah magazine, The New York Observer, American Demographics, The Chicago Tribune, City Limits, Metropolis, Elle, Time Out New York, Mirabella, African American Review, Essence, Glamour, Hungry Mind Review, National Geographic, More, Country Living, Garden Design, The Nation, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Lise Funderburg's essays have been published in Threepenny Review, Harper's, New England Review, Cleaver, Brevity, GourmetLive, Chattahoochee Review, and elsewhere.