The face
behind the posts

Hello! My name is Lisa Bray and I am so happy you are here! 

​

I started writing as a kid in various diaries, journals, the school newspaper, whatever I could to just get my voice heard. When I entered high school, I was praised by all my teachers for how well I wrote and the creativity behind it. In fact, my senior year English teacher gave his first 100% of the year in March 2004 to me on a paper I wrote about my Great-Grandfather. I was so honored, he spoke so highly about the paper, he ended up reading it to the class and then I read it at Papa's funeral (you can find the unabridged paper under "92 Years of History" in the blog). Then my world was shaken when I was writing my undergrad thesis on apartheid; I was told my writing was "too creative" and that academic writing needed to be "boring". Shocked to my core, I didn't know what to write. I only knew creative writing! Though I was thrown off by this, it gave me the insight to see that I really was a creative writer and was determined to be anything but boring after that.

​

The time has finally come for me to share my poems, my short stories, my creativity with the world and be true to myself and what I know. I hope you enjoy, I hope you feel inspired, I hope something reaches you on a deep level and I hope you follow along as I continue to grow here, there and everywhere.

​

Cheers! 

Lisa