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. Available on Amazon, and at the San Jose Public Library.)

She is also the author of The Wedding Officiant's Guide: How to Write and Conduct a Perfect Ceremony (Chronicle Books).  Now in its 2nd edition, this book is also available on Amazon in paperback or ebook.  With more than 20,000 copies sold, readers and reviewers have called this the complete guide for any new or one-time wedding officiant.

Lisa Francesca’s essays and poetry have appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader,  AboutPlace Journal, 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 about 19th-century spiritualism in the San Francisco Bay Area to prepare for a lecture at the Winchester Mystery House.

Photo by Anita Scharf.