Lisa Mecham is a writer living in California. Her work has appeared inThe New York Times: Tiny Modern Loveand Roxane Gays bestselling anthology "Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture." She is working on a novel about what happens to a family when mental illness is hidden beneath the veneer of suburban perfection and co-editing an anthology, "Happy After: Women Thriving In Divorce." Shes interested in resiliency, agency and hope especially for women.