Lisa Francesca is the author of Helen and the Masters: A Portrait of a California Mystic, the biography of a ranch wife and mother in California's turn-of-the-century Sacramento Delta who channeled ethereal writings and became a mystic in her forties. (Read an excerpt here. Support Hicklebee's Bookstore by buying Helen and the Masters there. Also available on Amazon, and at the San Jose Public Library.)
Lisa Francesca’s essays and poetry have appeared in AboutPlace Journal, Catamaran Literary Reader, and Reed Magazine. Holding an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State and a BA in English from U.C. Berkeley, she is currently researching and writing about 19th century American art magazines, women's magazines and housekeeping handbooks.