Lisa Acerbo is the Director of General Education at a small, local University. She holds an EdD and MFA from Western Connecticut State University. Her short stories and poetry appear in Scarlet, Poor Yorick Literary Journal, Ripples in Space, Universe in a Bottle by Flying Ketchup Press, and Whatever Happened to Hansel and Gretel? by Fathom Publishing (a finalist in the 2024 Best Books Awards in the category of Fiction: Anthology). Her romantasy novel, Death and Coffee, was published in 2025 by NineStar Press. Her next novel, The Netherworld Witch, a YA Fantasy, is arriving in 2026. When not writing, she can be found walking her rescue pups in the woods.