Lisa Duffy is the author of This is Home and The Salt House, named by Real Simple as a Best Book of the Month upon its June release, as well as one of Bustle’s Best Debut Novels by Women in 2017, a She Reads Book Club selection and Refinery 29’s Best Beach Reads of 2017. Lisa received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts. Her short fiction was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her writing can be found in numerous publications, including Writer’s Digest. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children.
Her brother Graham Quinn is engaged to singer/TV presenter Myleene Klass.
Son, Jordan (Jay), born April 1996 and daughter, Mia, born March 2000. Mia was diagnosed with moderate autism when she was 18 months but through ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis), a special individualized program in which major goals are broken down into achievable smaller ones, Mia is now back into mainstream education.
