Lisa Vice Buch - 1951
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I. Biography Lisa Vice was born July 25, 1951, in Tipton, Indiana. Her father, Eddie, was an assembly line worker and her mother, Dorothy, a homemaker. Vice grew up in Cicero,
Indiana. Vice married Martha Clark Cummings also a writer, June 24, 1989. She has one daughter Zoe Vice. While she was a high school dropout. At the age of thirty-four, she graduated from Hunter College in New
York City, University of New York, B.A. (summa cum laude; Honors Curriculum, English/Creative Writing), in 1985, M.A. (Teaching English as a second language), 1987 (Gale). She now lives in Thermopolis, Wyoming.
Vice has worked many jobs: file clerk, nurse's aide, farmer, birth control counselor, mason's tender, batik artist, cleaning woman, and instructor of creative writing at the University of
Santa Cruz. She also was an instructor of English as a second language at Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California, and Hunter College, 1987-1992 (Gale). II. Awards and Literary Works The awards Vice has received include New Voice Award for Fiction, 1987; Ludwig Vogelstein Grant, 1989; for "Reckless Driver", PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, 1992; and
The Commonwealth Club, first work of fiction silver medal in 1995. She also was the Wyoming Arts Council Literature (WAC) Fellow for 1999. She teaches workshops, gives
readings through WAC in programs entitled Tumblewords, and called Arts Across Wyoming. (Gale). Vice works include Reckless Driver (a novel) published by Dutton (New
York), in 1995. It is about Lana Franklin, the younger daughter if a blue-collar family on the edge of self-destruction. After Lana's mother leaves, her father becomes increasingly violent and abusive (Amazon).
Preacher's Lake, (a novel), published by Dutton (New York), in 1997. It is about a politically correct band of lonely hearts who find love and meaning in a small town in coastal Maine. (Amazon)
Other Short Stories '~ohwedder (1992) III. Contact ViceLisa Vice can be contacted at Jean V. Nagger, 216 East 75d~ Street, #1E, New York, NY 10021. Some internet sites to find her books are Amazon.com and Altravista.com IV. Work Cited Amazon. Vice, Lisa. Edtorial Reviews Synopsis.3/29/00.
The Bridge (1993)
Loves Shadow (1993)
The Times of Our Lives (1993)
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (1994)
Bluff City (1994).
Farmer's Market (l994)
"Gale." Contemporary Authors. Vol.156. 1997. Vice, Lisa. Reckless Driver. New York: Dutton, 1996.
This essay was submitted by a student of Judy Iliff, a teacher at Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming.