Hi, I’m Lisa-Jo

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LISA-JO BAKER is a bestselling author, lapsed lawyer, current acquisitions editor for W Publishing, an imprint of HarperCollins, and the bestselling author of Never Unfriended, along with The Middle Matters and Surprised by Motherhood.

Her most recent release, It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping, is a critically acclaimed, honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to recognize and refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers.

Christianity Today said of,  “Lisa-Jo Baker’s gorgeous memoir . . . It’s one thing to write a book about the hated or the loved, much harder to write one that includes the broken details of a father and a country without trespassing on the resonant love one has for them. Neither of them is a caricature. They are real enough to love yet at times flawed enough to hate. It’s a beautifully complicated book.”

Kirkus Reviews called it, “Heartfelt, emotionally charged reflections . . . [a] bracing memoir.”

Publishers Weekly said, “this powerful memoir . . . leaves a mark.”

With a BA in English/prelaw from Gordon College and a JD from the University of Notre Dame Law School, Lisa-Jo has lived and worked on three continents in the human rights field and subsequently spent nearly a decade leading the online community of women called (in)courage as their editor in chief and community manager.

Lisa-Jo sees life through story-colored lenses and loves people, movies, books, and helping other authors decode their stories. She is the co-host of the Out of the Ordinary podcast—the show that helps you grow a daily life that matters.

Originally from South Africa, Lisa-Jo now lives just outside Washington, D.C., where she met and fell in love with her husband in the summer of ’96. Their story together spans decades, languages, countries, books, three very opinionated teens, and one dog.

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Two of her blog posts were turned into viral Mother’s Day videos by Journey Box Media.