Lisa Edmonds was born and raised in Kansas. A graduate of Buhler High School, she studied English and forensic criminology at Wichita State University. After acquiring her Bachelor's degree in 2003, she considered a career in law enforcement as a behavioral analyst before earning a Master's from Wichita State in 2005 and then a Ph.D. in English from Texas A&M University in 2013.
She is an associate professor of English at a college in Texas, where she teaches a variety of writing and literature courses.
When not in the classroom, she shares a quiet country home with her husband and their cats, and enjoys writing, reading, traveling, spoiling her niece and nephew, and singing karaoke.