Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

Lisa’s debut novel, PASTORS’ WIVES, was inspired by an article she reported as a staff writer for Time . She joined the magazine as a Tokyo correspondent; later covering news, trends, business, arts and religion stateside until 2009. Since then, Lisa has worked with Warner Bros., Sony Studios and CBS writing original TV pilots. She is a consulting producer on Season 21 of Law & Order: SVU, and is under an overall deal from Universal Studios. Her articles and essays have been published in The New York Times , Boston Globe , Money , Adweek and Bon Appetit . Her first book, REMEMBER ME (HarperCollins, 2006), a travelogue and exploration of modern American funerals, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.

Born and raised in Kobe, Japan, Lisa is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Rutgers College—and is now based in New Jersey.