Lisa Gardiner

Lisa Gardiner is a writer, illustrator, and educator living in Colorado. Her books for children include What's Up With Altitude? (CMC Press) and Catastrophic Colorado (Westcliffe Publishers). She is also the whimsical illustrator of the NASA Elementary GLOBE picture book series. When not drawing or writing for children, Lisa writes for websites and blogs, creates serious yet amusing activities for science classrooms, develops museum exhibits, teaches courses about the science of our planet, and...See more

Lisa Gardiner is a writer, illustrator, and educator living in Colorado. Her books for children include What's Up With Altitude? (CMC Press) and Catastrophic Colorado (Westcliffe Publishers). She is also the whimsical illustrator of the NASA Elementary GLOBE picture book series. When not drawing or writing for children, Lisa writes for websites and blogs, creates serious yet amusing activities for science classrooms, develops museum exhibits, teaches courses about the science of our planet, and walks her dog. Lisa holds an MFA in writing from Goucher College, a PhD in geology from the University of Georgia, and a BA from Smith College. See less