An early participant in the CBGB’s scene, Lisa Jane Persky was a founding member of the staff of the New York Rocker and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her work as journalist, photographer and artist has appeared in Mojo, The Pitchfork Review, The Los Angeles Times and elsewhere, and her fiction has appeared in Bomb and has been anthologized in Eclectica: Best Fiction Volume I. She has appeared on, off and off-off Broadway and in numerous films and television shows. Lisa also anthologizes Chickens in Literature.