Lisa is the author and photographer of several award-winning books about the sea, beachcombing and mudlarking. Her memoir Rag and Bone (John Murray 2020) won the Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-fiction.
Lisa grew up on eroding cliffs on the Isle
of Sheppey, at the mouth of the Thames. Her grandfather was from a South London family in the ‘scavenging professions’ and she spent much of her childhood fossicking along the island’s shores, collecting—among other things—fossils, sharks’ teeth and old bottles.
After leaving the island, Lisa worked as a documentary photographer for 12 years. Past clients include the Independent on Sunday, Daily Telegraph and Observer. For the last 20 years she has lived with her family on the south coast of Cornwall, in a house shared with buckets and boxes of beach finds.
