Lisa Huang Fleischman

Lisa Huang Fleischman was born in Taiwan, to a Chinese mother and an American father of Italian and German-Jewish descent. Since her father was a relief worker, she grew up in Asia and Africa -- a life of adventure and strange sights that she never really recovered from.

When her family moved to the U.S., she attended the University of California - Berkeley and Columbia University Law School.

After graduating law school, she spent several months in China, taking part in the 1989 student demonstrations in Tienanmen Square, traveling thousands of miles all over the country by "hard sleeper" train, and taking photos. She flew to Hong Kong a few days after the June 4 massacre, where all her photo negatives were stolen.

She later spent time as an officer in the U.S. Army, and went on several human rights missions for international human rights groups.

Lisa wrote 'Dream of the Walled City' as a novel loosely based on the life of her maternal grandmother, a woman of social and political standing in pre-revolutionary Changsha, who ran for office on a secessionist ticket, and knew Mao Zedong. The hardcover edition, published in 2000, was highly praised in the New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune, and the paperback went into three printings. The book was also published in French, German, Dutch, Turkish, Danish and Chinese.

Lisa's forthcoming novel, 'Hidden In The Eye', is a crime thriller with a supernatural twist, set in mid-1990's New York and based on her observations as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn,

When not writing, Lisa practices law. She lives in New York City with her husband and three sons.