About the Author

Born a first generation American of Danish heritage, Lisa Stout grew up in Southern California. Her diversity of work experience includes store clerk, janitor, nanny, cocktail waitress, artist's model and office manager. Stout interrupted her studies at Cal State Long Beach to learn how to fly. Since taking to the sky, her résumé includes air traffic controller, flight instructor, freight dog, puddle-jumper captain, and captain with a major airline. Though recently retired from aviation, she has always considered herself first, foremost and always a writer and artist whose bursting palette of post-impressionist oils on canvas showcase strong ethnic women in deep contemplation. As a wanderlust 18 year-old, Lisa Stout lived six months in her VW bus while surfing in Hawaii before moving to a small America Samoa village. Later she joined a commune in Denmark and then lived in France with a family as their au père. She has resided in many cities across the USA, both large and small, and is now settled with her husband, two dogs, three cats and two horses on the Olympic Peninsula. She feels finally at home in the Pacific Northwest, a place where she has found fresh creative inspiration. As a woman pilot who worked in an otherwise male-dominated airline industry, Stout's refreshing and authentic perspective offers poignant, thought-provoking insight to post-9/11 aviation security window dressing.

Keesha and Lisa Stout
photo by Chic Stout

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