Hello,

 

I’m Andrew Lisa, a freelance writer living and working out of a little yellow cottage in a tiny Jersey Shore beach town across the water from New York City.

 

Traditionally, bios are written in the third person, but I feel silly pretending that a bunch of other people got together to discuss how wonderful I am, and then felt compelled to write it down. So, for the sake of full disclosure, that’s me in the picture, which is supposed to look candid and spontaneous, but is obviously staged and airbrushed.

 

Formerly one of the youngest nationally distributed columnists for the largest newspaper syndicate in the country (the Gannett News Service), I’ve been writing professionally since 2001.

 

I've been published hundreds of times in dozens of print publications across the country, and if you scroll Apple News, Flipboard, or a similar app, I'd bet you've seen my stuff without realizing it.

 

I worked in New York City
as a section editor for amNewYork, the most widely distributed paper in Manhattan, but my first job was with a local daily newspaper in New Jersey. It was a small, but busy newsroom that valued brevity and accuracy above all else. Deadlines were non-negotiable.

 

Although it's not a particularly strong selling point, I'd like to mention that I had a mediocre stand-up comedy career that lasted six years — four in New York City and two in Los Angeles. Although it turns out I'm better suited for the keyboard than I am for the stage, I performed all over — from New Orleans to Las Vegas to Oakland to Philadelphia. I made friends across the country and I wouldn't trade those years for anything in the world.