Lisa Westberg Peters

1. Lisa Westberg Peters

2. . Lisa Westberg Peters was born in 1951. She is 61 years old right now and still alive!! Lisa Westberg Peters lives in Minneapolis near the Mississippi River!!

3. Lisa Westberg Peters is married. Her husband’s name is Dave. She has 2 grown-up daughters, Emily and Anna. They live close to her. A photo of her daughters when they were younger.

4. Lisa Westberg Peters really enjoys science. She collects sand and rocks wherever she travels. She has been to Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Chile, Turkey, and all over Europe. Traveling gives her ideas for her writing.

5. These are some photos from her travels.

6. Lisa Westberg Peters liked to write long stories about fairies to her grandmother. She would sit on the banks of the St. Croix River in Wisconsin and write poetry also. Her aunt gave her the idea to major in journalism in college.

7. Here are 3 examples of her poems: River Meets Crack in the Earth A river crosses the San Andreas fault. It turns right, then continues on, a little shaken up.

8. Obituary for a Clam Clam. Marine. Age, 10 years. Died 300 million years ago in underwater landslide. Native of the Tethys Sea. Loving mother of 198 clams. Lived a good life in the shallow water off the coast of Pangaea. Survived by daughter clams, son clams, uncle clams, aunt clams, clam, clams, clams . . . She is missed dearly, but is fossilized in the limestone of a back yard path in Memphis, Tennessee.

9. Instructions for the Earth's Dishwasher Please set the continental plates gently on the continental shelves. No jostling or scraping. Please stack the basin right side up. No tilting or turning upside-down. Please scrape the mud out of the mud pots. But watch out! They're still hot. As for the forks in the river, just let them soak. Remember, if anything breaks, it's your fault.