A rare Southern California native, Lisa Morton's career as a professional writer began in 1988 with the horror-fantasy feature film MEET THE HOLLOWHEADS (aka LIFE ON THE EDGE), on which she also served as Associate Producer. For the Disney Channel's 1992 ADVENTURES IN DINOSAUR CITY, she served as screenwriter, Associate Producer, Songwriter, and Miniatures Coordinator. For stage she has written and co-produced the acclaimed horror one-acts Spirits of the Season, Sane Reaction and The Territorial Imperative, and has adapted and directed Philip K. Dick's Radio Free Albemuth and Theodore Sturgeon's The Graveyard Reader; her full-length science fiction comedy Trashers was an L.A. Weekly "Recommended" pick. Her short fiction has appeared in the books Dark Voices 6: The Pan Book of Horror, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Dark Terrors, After Shocks, White of the Moon, The Museum of Horrors, Dead But Dreaming, Shelf Life: An Anthology of Bookstore Stories, Dark Terrors 6, Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre, Mondo Zombie, Dark Passions: Hot Blood XIII, and Midnight Premiere; forthcoming are appearances in the anthologies Winter Frights and Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry. Her chapbook The Free Way was published by Fool's Press, and magazine appearances include After Hours, Dream Forge and Crimewave (forthcoming). She has also written numerous episodes of the animated television series Sky Dancers, Dragon Flyz and Van-Pires. Her first book, The Cinema of Tsui Hark, about the legendary Hong Kong director/producer of such classics as PEKING OPERA BLUES and A CHINESE GHOST STORY, was published by McFarland, who also published The Halloween Encyclopedia in 2003 amd A Hallowe'en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries in 2008. Her television movie TORNADO WARNING was chosen by the Pax cable station to launch their 2002 fall season, and 2005 saw the release of three horror films, the vampire thriller BLOOD ANGELS, the mutant shark story BLUE DEMON, and THE GLASS TRAP, about genetically altered fire ants. Lisa was awarded the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction for her story "Tested" (which first appeared in Cemetery Dance magazine), and she is also a two-time recipient of the President's Richard Laymon Award, presented by the Horror Writers Association.