Andria Lisle is an experienced writer and communicator with a journalism and curatorial background.  Whether Andria is working in the for-profit arena or in the arts, her end goal is to do work that uplifts her community.  

Andria Lisle is the bestselling co-author of Sewing School: 21 Sewing Projects Kids Will Love to Make and three more how-to books, the author of Waking Up in Memphis, and a medical- and arts-focused grants writer.

After decades of soaking up blues, rock ’n’ roll, and soul as a music journalist, record store clerk, label owner, and occasional tour manager, in recent years, Andria’s creative approach has taken the forms of grant and technical writing, copywriting, documentation, research, interpretation, social practice, and institutional critique.

Since her heady, formative days in the music business, Andria has built her reputation as a skilled narrative, grant, copy, and technical writer. Her background as a visual arts and film curator who conceived and executed experimental community engagement programming that shifted the traditional institutional paradigm to a constructionist philosophy of learning by doing has helped hone her writing skills.

Andria’s interviews, articles, and essays have been widely published and anthologized, appearing in

the Guardian, Oxford American, Wax Poetics, Garden & Gun, the Memphis Flyer, the Commercial Appeal, Grand Royal, Stop Smiling, and more.

“A writer with a thirty-year career as a culture critic, radio-show host, and museum curator in Memphis…”

—Matt Lee and Ted Lee

As a writer, Andria loves to solve mysteries in technical writing: either making difficult concepts simpler by writing in layman’s terms or, for example, easing the medical patient’s experience by identifying practice gaps and writing CME grants for clinicians. When copywriting, she strategizes new ways to build and engage diverse audiences. Click here to download her resume.