Born and raised in Albuquerque, educated in Boston and NYC, Alisa is a bestselling author with more than 1 million books in print. This Columbia grad is also a recovered journalist with nearly a decade as a staff writer for the Boston Globe and LA Times. She is a certified fitness instructor who loves to write about food and experiment with recipes, and she adores knitting but really sucks at it. Her weakness is high-end scented candles. Her favorite thing to do is read, and her favorite authors are Dean Koontz and Charles Dickens. She lives in New Mexico, and divides her time between a house in the city and a ranch in the country.