Poetic storyteller and artist, Lisa Marcia Morris, was born February 2, 1966, to a Trinidadian mother and Bajan father in Long Island, NY. Amidst a menagerie of Caribbean wise tales and colorful island fare, Morris was introduced to poetry by her mother, who often read to her before bedtime. She found life and breath in favored stories such as Mary Austin's The Sand-Hill Crane and nursery rhyme, Jack Sprat. Grimm's' Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, along with iconic children's authors, Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein, rounded out Morris' eclectic reading list. While at John Bowne High School in Queens, NY, planted poetic seeds took root, and Morris explored her craft in literary groups such as the Poetry Club. Her first printed work, An Old City Block, which vividly described the weathered and beloved character of an urban "stomping ground," appeared in 1984 in the Eureka Poetry Magazine. Morris received her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in 1988.

She has worked in executive recruiting, non-profit development, and most recently in media as a public broadcasting. From her start, through college, and during her corporate career, she remained true to her organic passion for story, verse and folk art.A wisdom hunter, she considers herself a late bloomer. It was the children, namely, second cousins, nieces and nephews who truly inspired her to live in the moment, seizing the power of TODAY at any age, to publish and share her children's stories with the world.