Lisa Frieden grew up in Southern California and earned degrees in English Literature & Languages from Harvard University and UC Santa Barbara. She has worked in high tech public relations and lived through kidney failure, dialysis, and kidney transplantation. Now a wife, a mother, and a writer, she is the author of the romantic suspense novel, "The Offering" and the memoir, "Dialysis: a Memoir". She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is at work on her next novel.