Lisa has written and performed poetry since childhood. She won a national schools poetry writing competition in 1991 and this gave her further impetus to become a professional writer. She self-published a book of poems called Something to Say in 1992.

Her career as a journalist began at the Trinidad Express, where she was a feature writer and the editor of a weekly youth magazine, Vox. Moving to the Guardian, she continued to write features, eventually becoming assistant editor of features. In 2001 she was awarded an Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship to The Washington Post and spent some five months as a journalist on the Style Desk there. She left the Guardian in 2007 as Internet editor.

Having been an actor with the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, she studied stagecraft and literature at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, while earning a BA in Literatures in English (First Class Hons). Her writing has reflected this experience and she has written a handful of plays, one of which was staged as a dramatic reading as part of a playwrighting workshop headed by Tony Hall, a Trinidad & Tobago theatre legend.

As a poet she has toured Trinidad & Tobago with an ensemble of women writers called Ten Sisters. Her work appears on the group's self-titled CD, published by FishInk Press.

Lisa writes in a variety of genres and voices, but is probably best known in her homeland for her weekly column, written in Trinidad Creole, that ran in the Guardian from 2006-2010. It covered issues of governance, parenting, society, children's rights, education, the arts and the economy, among others.

Lisa is the mother of two girls and is currently working on three manuscripts, one of them a young adult story and one a follow-up to The Chalice Project.