Lisa Mecham is a writer living in California. Her work has appeared in "The New York Times: Tiny Modern Love" and Roxane Gay’s bestselling anthology "Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture." Her writing about redefining her family and staying legally married to her husband, despite their separation, was featured in Catapult, The On Being Project and HuffPost. As an editor, she’s worked with The Rumpus as a Senior Features Editor and is a freelance manuscript consultant. Lisa is working on a book about what happens to a family when mental illness is hidden beneath the veneer of suburban perfection and co-editing an anthology, "Happy After: Women Thriving In Divorce." She’s interested in resiliency, agency and hope — especially for women.