ABOUT LISA COLLIER COOL

            Lisa Collier Cool is a bestselling author and winner of 18 journalism awards.  She has been a full-time freelancer since 1984, writing 500 articles for Associated Press, BabyTalk, Caring Today, CBS MoneyWatch, Cosmopolitan, The Daily News, Essence, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Harper's, Harper's Bazaar, Health Monitor, Ladies Home Journal, Marie Claire, O the Oprah Magazine, Parade, Parenting, Parents, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Pause Magazine, Penthouse, Publishers Weekly, Redbook, Reader’s Digest, Self, The Wall Street Journal, Woman's Day, Writer's Digest and many others.

            In 2007, she won the June Roth Memorial Medical Journalism Award for “Saving the Smallest Patients” (Good Housekeeping), and an American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Outstanding Article Award for “Rescuing Rosalie” (Ladies Home Journal).   She also won the June Roth Award in 2006, 2003, and 1996.  Other honors include a 2005 IOF Osteoporosis Journalism Award; three National Health Information Awards (in 2004 and 2005), a 2002 Henry R. Luce Award, American Society of Plastic Surgeon's 2001 Media Circle of Excellence Award, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery's 2001 Journalistic Achievement Award, and ASJA Outstanding Article Awards in 2001 and 1996.

            Her article, "The Preventable Cancer," was one of three Good Housekeeping stories on colon cancer that collectively won the 1999 National Magazine Award for Consumer Service.  The series also won an American Digestive Health Foundation Award; and was featured at a White House press conference with Hillary Clinton and Katie Couric.  She received a 1999 award from the American Liver Foundation for excellence in reporting on hepatitis C, and the 1997 Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Journalism.

            Lisa is the author of five books.  BEWARE THE NIGHT: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural (with coauthor Ralph Sarchie), was published by St. Martin's Press in October, 2001 and reached #3 on the Amazon bestseller list and #10 on Ingram's bestseller list.  Movie rights were sold to Jerry Bruckheimer at Disney Pictures.  Her previous books are: BAD BOYS: Why We Love Them, How To Live With Them, When To Leave Them (with Carole Lieberman, M.D.; HOW TO GIVE GOOD PHONE, HOW TO WRITE IRRESISTIBLE QUERY LETTERS and HOW TO SELL EVERY MAGAZINE ARTICLE YOU WRITE (Writer's Digest).

            Her Web credits include Intelihealth.com, Parents.com, CBS MoneyWatch, and Alight.com.   Advertorial clients include American Academy of Family Physicians, Coca-Cola (the Beverage Institute), McDonald’s, Olay, SonoSite, pharmaceutical and other companies.  She’s  also written special advertising sections for The Wall Street Journal, taught writing courses at Parson's School of Design and Discovery Center, and spoken at many writers' conferences.   Lisa is a past president of American Society of Journalists and Authors and chair of the board of trustees of the Writers Emergency Assistance Fund.

            Her media appearances include over 200 radio talk shows in the U.S. and abroad; and A Current Affair, ABC News, AM Philadelphia, Cleveland Exchange, Fairfield Exchange; the Early Show, Good Housekeeping Reports, Good Morning America and Hard Copy, as well as Reader’s Digest podcasts.  Before becoming a freelance writer, she was a literary agent, selling more than 400 books, many of them bestsellers.  Lisa is married, with three daughters (including identical twins) and two badly behaved border terriers.