About the Author

Lisa Jensen is a veteran film critic and newspaper columnist from Santa Cruz, California. Her reviews and articles have appeared in Cinefantastique, Take One, and the Los Angeles Times. She also reviewed books for the San Francisco Chronicle for thirteen years, where her specialty was historical fiction and women’s fiction.

Her swashbuckling historical novel, The Witch from the Sea, was published in 2001. The story Proserpina’s Curse, an early extract from the novel, Alias Hook, was published in the summer, 2006, issue of Paradox Magazine.

Lisa lives in Santa Cruz with her husband, artist James Aschbacher, and their two tortie cats.