About Lisa Cotoggio

LISA COTOGGIO hails from College Point, New York and began writing after spending an intensive year of study at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.

“I wanted to get behind the scenes…inside the characters heads.”

The first to admit, she’s never taken a writing class in her life, Lisa attributes her recent success to years of hard work and study.

“To become a writer, one has to actually sit down and write.”

Getting to this point has been no small feat; it’s taken fifteen years of focus and commitment.

“Once you have the first draft down on paper, that’s when the real work begins.”

With the release of her debut novel, A SPIRIT OF EVIL, Lisa is launching what she hopes to be a long and fruitful career. Her writing style encompasses a unique blend of actual locales from her childhood, which she incorporates into engaging fictionalized stories.

“I think it’s important to write about what you know.”

A Top Ten Winner in The 2002 Nevada Film Office 15th Annual Screenwriters Competition for her screenplay, Alien Legacy, has proved that Lisa has grown into a prolific writer with the uncanny ability to create stories in different genres for various media, i.e. Novel, Feature Film and Television.

“I want to do it all,” she says in a recent conversation.

“I’m drawn to the dark side of things, and intrigued by the psychological aspect of what makes people do the things they do.”

Lisa has several Film and Television projects in the works and is readying her second book, The Innocents for publication.