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About Lisa Ellison Cooper
Lisa Ellison is an editor, writing coach, and speaker with an Ed.S in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a background in mindfulness. She has spent the last two decades helping clients and students turn difficult experiences into art and currently teaches courses in memoir, creative nonfiction, and mindful writing practices. Her life story and essays have appeared on NPR’s With Good Reason and in Hippocampus Literary Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Huffington Post, and The Guardian, among others.
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Slow Pieces Blog
One Simple Way to Inspire the Next Generation of Writers
I was walking into the living room when my husband said, “Holy shit, Ruth Bader Ginsberg is dead.” The news hit me so hard I fell into a nearby wall. The notorious RBG was the champion of equality who flipped the system on its head, the tiny and mighty example that...
The F Word Every Writer Fears Most
In my late twenties, I spent two years trying to turn my dream of earning an MFA in poetry into a reality. I attended graduate-level writing courses, workshopped my portfolio, and wrote teaching manifestos. In March of 2000, I received an acceptance letter that...
How the Imposter Syndrome Works to Keep You Small
At 37 inches and 37 pounds, I was the second smallest kid in my first-grade class. The smallest was a kid we called Peanut—a boy so tiny, he’d drown in the shallow end of the pool. Everyone loved to ruffle Peanut’s hair. I loved his "old man" style, complete with...