After graduating from university with a BA in English Literature and History, Lisa Taylor began a career as a marketer for the 3D graphics industry. In between contracts she worked as a journalist, contributing articles and feature stories to numerous trade publications. A few years before her family’s immigration to New Zealand (2010), she started a project combining one of her teenage sons’ interests (videogames) with one of her own (mystery novels). In 2011 the resulting manuscript, Motive Games, won the Caleb Prize (Omega Writers of Australia) in the Young Adult category. It was published in 2012 by Wombat Books. 

When she is not working on the sequel to Motive Games, or speaking to young people about media literacy, Lisa acts as the commissioning editor of the Australian publication, ‘Words With Wings’. Outside of work, the Taylor’s live like pioneers in New Zealand’s Northland and taunt their family in Canada with photos of exotic fruits and snowless winters.