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; more recently, 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, and Dead But Dreaming; forthcoming are the long-awaited Mondo Zombie, edited by John Skipp, Shelf Life: An Anthology of Bookstore Stories, and Dark Terrors 6. Her chapbook The Free Way was published by Fool's Press, and magazine appearances include After Hours and Dream Forge. 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 recently published by McFarland, and her most recent screenplay was for the PAX television movie TORNADO WARNING.