Lisa CrippsLisa Cripps is a Canadian author whose fiction and nonfiction explore emotional immaturity, identity, inheritance, memory, and transformation. She is the author of five books, including the nonfiction title Just Grow the F*ck Up: A Field Guide to Emotional Immaturity in the Age of Performance, the story collection What the Land Remembers: Mythic and Supernatural Stories, the supernatural thriller The Widow's Vein, and the duology Ash Remembers What Fire Forgets.Her fiction weaves paranormal romance, dark speculative elements, literary fantasy, gothic storytelling, and supernatural suspense, often grounded in themes of belonging, grief, cultural tension, environmental consequence, and what is carried across generations. Shaped by a multi-faith perspective, her work brings a distinct lens to both narrative and commentary, moving between the psychological and the mythic, the intimate and the inherited.She writes for readers drawn to emotional depth, mythic resonance, and characters shaped by both fire and fracture: stories that cross thresholds, confront what has been buried, and ask what must be reclaimed.Based in Canada, Lisa also works across visual and creative arts, often painting and exploring other forms of expression. She lives with three cats who, by all accounts, believe they are in charge. Read More Read Less