About Lisa Lutz

Lisa Lutz is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again, and Heads You Lose (with David Hayward). The latest installment of the Spellman saga, Trail of the Spellmans (Document #5) will be released in February, 2012. Lutz has won the Alex award and been nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Although she attended UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, the University of Leeds in England, and San Francisco State University, she still does not have a bachelor's degree. Lisa spent most of the 1990s hopping through a string of low-paying odd jobs while writing and rewriting the screenplay Plan B, a mob comedy. After the film was made in 2000, she vowed to never write another screenplay. She is currently working on a children's book with the illustrator Jaime Temairik and a stand-alone novel that contains no Spellmans. (Rest assured, she'll return to the Spellmans after that.) Lisa lives somewhere in the continental United States.