About Lisa

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Lisa Hom says she caught the writing bug early. "One summer I taught myself to type on my sister’s state-of-the art Brother Charger typewriter. I spent another summer trying to memorize every soliloquy in Macbeth. Come to think of it, maybe that was the same summer..."

Though she caught the bug early, it would take a while for it to mature. After graduating from Midwood High School, Lisa packed her suitcase and took the first train out of Brooklyn headed for Boston, where she began her literature studies at Tufts University. Four years later, Lisa found her way back to Manhattan, where she interned at YM and Marie Claire, before beginning her career in fashion as a photo producer for J. Crew.

But eventually Manhattan began to feel small to Lisa. She realized she needed to see more of the world, so she set out for Europe. "I went to Italy and volunteered to help restore their wild lands," she recalls. "I ended up picking rocks off barely traveled trails, so I had a lot of time to think."

Lisa returned to New York, but she still felt a nagging wanderlust. She headed West; Lisa would spend the next 9 years in San Francisco. "It was the colors. They reminded me of Europe," she says of the City by the Bay. She started a teaching internship and spent a year living in a socialite’s attic. "It was a crazy existence, living in the attic, but they had a house keeper who cooked every night. It was crazier for the socialite’s son. He had to live with his teacher." Though she loved the kids it didn’t take long for Lisa to realize that teaching wasn’t her ultimate calling.

She decided to pursue her first love. Right before the tech bubble burst, Lisa landed a writing job with a well funded dot com. But it wasn’t meant to be. The day before she was supposed to start, the company folded and Lisa effectively became its only employee to be laid off before her start date. Turning lemons into lemonade Lisa made some fortuitous connections, which led to a job writing an arts & entertainment column for the SF Weekly, a local alternative paper.

Missing the world of fashion, Lisa eventually decided that it was time to merge her interest in writing with her passion for fashion. She landed a job as Senior Copywriter at gap.com where she was soon promoted to Editorial Manager. During the Gap years Lisa married her long-time sweetheart. "He’s what I was hoping to find when I went to Italy. Even if he is from Jersey."

But now it is back East for Lisa. In many ways she has come full circle. Back to Brooklyn. Back to fashion. Back to writing.