Elisa Lorello

Elisa Lorello was born and raised on Long Island, the youngest of seven children. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and eventually launched a career teaching rhetoric and composition. She has been teaching first-year writing to university students since 2000, but went on sabbatical in fall 2012. Elisa spent six years in North Carolina, where she split her time between teaching and writing, and returned to the northeast in October 2012.

Published by Amazon Publishing, Elisa is the author of the Kindle best-selling novels Faking It and Ordinary World, German Kindle best-seller Why I Love Singlehood (co-authored with Sarah Girrell), and Adulation. She is very secretive about her works-in-progress.

Elisa has been featured in the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer, the Raleigh TV show The Artist's Craft, and was a guest speaker at the TAF 2012 Write Now! conference. She speaks about her self-publishing experiences and success, topics in the craft of writing and revision, and the steps of publishing and promotion.