Lisa Wysocky

Lisa Wysocky is a best-selling and award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction who specializes in biographies and works that involve horses. She also has developed protocols and training methods for horses used in equine therapy and other equine assisted activities.
Lisa was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and was raised in Mound, graduating from Mound-Westonka High School. She then graduated from the University of Minnesota-Waseca and trained horses briefly in Ohio and Texas, before settling in Washington State, where she trained Appaloosa horses, and riders, to national and world-championship wins. After an injury, she attended Pacific Lutheran University, and later moved to the Nashville, Tennessee area, where she became involved in the music industry as a publicist and artist manager.
She switched to books and therapeutic riding around 2002. Since then she has co-authored the award-winning book Front of the Class (with Brad Cohen). The hardcover version of the book won IPPY and Foreword book awards, and was aired as a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie of the same name.
Other books include Hidden Girl (with Shyima Hall), winner of a Junior Library Guild Award; and Walking on Eggshells (with Lyssa Chapman).
Horse books include Horse Country: A Celebration of Country Music and the Love of Horses; My Horse My Partner: Teamwork on the Ground; and Therapy Horse Selection. Her Cat Enright equestrian mystery series (Including The Opium Equation, The Magnum Equation, and The Fame Equation (November 2015)) has won awards from the Mom's Choice Awards, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, National Indie Excellence Awards, and the American Horse Publication Awards.
Lisa Wysocky is the founder of the nonprofit organization, Colby's Army, and resides in Tennessee and Minnesota.

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