After graduating from the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and spending many years as an advertising creative director and copywriter in New York City, LISA ROE accepted the tougher job of stay-at-home mom and turned to writing fiction-mostly to entertain her kids, but then to tell her own stories. Lisa lives with her husband and three incorrigible dogs in New Jersey, in the same suburb where The Real Housewives of New Jersey live.