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I got my M.A. in Writing and English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania (shout out to playwright Romulus Linney, my thesis adviser). I also got my B.A. from UPenn in English with a minor in Photography & Film.

Since then I've written books, lived in Italy, published articles in national publications, and worked at lifestyles magazines. I was the editor-in-chief of The Atlantan; the Home & Garden Editor of Atlanta Magazine; and a Senior Editor and Contributing Writer at Departures Magazine. While in New York I was also a consultant on A&E TV Network documentaries.

For the past twenty years I've made Atlanta my home along with my two teenage daughters, two dogs, and my husband, the design director of an architecture firm. Read my full bio here. 

Lisa Combs Jern is a screenwriter and, in a prior life, a trial lawyer for more than twenty-five years at one of the world’s largest law firms. She’s represented some of the biggest Fortune 50 companies and, on a pro bono basis, some of the neediest folks in Atlanta.

Lisa graduated summa from Florida State University, winning the Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar award for her thesis on William Faulkner and T.S. Eliot. She got her J.D. with high honors from Duke University Law School, where she won the James S. Bidlake Award for legal writing. She was also on the editorial board of the Duke Law Journal. Prior to private practice, Lisa worked for a judge on the federal appellate court in Atlanta.

Lisa has two awesome daughters and is married to a knight in shining armor. She likes to say that, as a trial lawyer, she’s been telling people’s stories to judges and juries for decades. And she knows how to meet a deadline. Fiction and screenwriting is way more fun.