Born in Seattle as the eldest of three, Lisa was a curious and adventuresome child from the beginning who delighted in taking things apart to see just exactly how they worked.  It is a Testament to the Bravery of her parents that they went on to have two more children.

In 1981, after having held a number of jobs in a variety of fields, it was no real surprise to her parents or brothers when Lisa went to work as a cab driver for a small mom-and-pop cab company in north Seattle.  During the summer of 1984, as a cab driver, after reading what she felt was a poorly written fantasy novel, she said, to no one in particular, "I can do better than that."

Unplanned early retirement in 1992 gave Lisa time to learn about computers and html coding.  Armed with these new tools, she resumed her family research.  This led to a new hobby--19th century Living History--and from there she caught a glimpse of the scope and diversity of her Aboriginal heritage that spanned North America, north and south of the border.  What her father and grandfather worked so very hard to hide, she works diligently to recover so the next generation will know who they are and where they came from, and be proud.

When  she isn't reading, writing, researching, or playing in the past, Lisa enjoys quiet moments beside mountain streams, brisk days on windy saltchuck beaches, and the exhilaration of riding ferry boats on Puget Sound in November.  A born-again pagan, she likes her steaks rare, her roses purple, and is a graduate cum laude of the School of Hard Knocks.

Lisa can be contacted at lisa@fortlangley.ca and her websites, in order of appearance, are:

The Northwest Twig of the Pépin family tree http://www.fortlangley.ca/pepin/index.html
1997

The Children of Fort Langley
http://www.fortlangley.ca
2000

The Shadowcat's ToyBox
http://www.fortlangley.ca/pepin/shadowcat.html
2001

The Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers
http://www.royalengineers.ca
2002