Lisa Marshall is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of experience writing for newspapers and magazines. From 1996 to 2006 she served as an editor and writer for the Daily Camera, the daily newspaper for Boulder, Colorado. There, she helped create and worked as founding editor for the GET OUT! Page, the nation's first daily outdoor recreation page, before moving into the roles of health editor and assistant features editor. She also worked as a senior staff writer with an emphasis on health, earning numerous state and national awards for her enterprise work in the field of medical science. In 2006, Lisa left the newspaper to pursue a full-time career as a freelance journalist, with an emphasis on health. She has since become a regular contributor to The Rocky Mountain News, The Daily Camera, Alternative Medicine Magazine, Boulder Magazine, Boulder County Home and Garden Magazine, RevolutionHealth.com, and numerous other trade and consumer magazines and web sites.

When Lisa is not writing, she spends her time training for marathons, trail running in Rocky Mountain National Park, mountaineering, and downhill skiing.

She lives in the foothills west of Boulder with her husband Ron, her two daughters, Skylar and Sage, her dog Gussie, and her two chickens, Whitie and Rojo.