Lisa Herman was born in L.A., grew up in Toronto, and lived in Israel working as an actress, waitress, writer, teacher, museum guide, and agricultural labourer. She has degrees from York University, U.C. Berkeley and California State University. She now works as a writer, therapist and teacher at ISIS-Canada, graduate training program for expressive arts therapists in Toronto, Meridian University in Petaluma, CA and is Director Creative Expression and Executive Core Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA.