Lise recently received grants from both the Canada Council on the Arts and the Quebec Council on the Arts for her memoir-in-progress In Search of Pure Lust. She has also been awarded recent fellowships at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and at Hedgebrook Writers Studio. Beyond Recall, a collection of the last writings of artist and writer Mary Meigs that she compiled and edited, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in biography in 2005. She is currently editor of Trivia: Voices of Feminism, an online relaunch of the award-winning feminist literary review Trivia: A Journal of Ideas of which she was founder and editor. Her creative nonfiction is forthcoming in Descant.