Lisa Borders’s third novel, Last Night at the Disco – a dark comedy set in the disco era – was published last fall. She is the author of two previous novels, The Fifty-First State and Cloud Cuckoo Land, the latter chosen by Pat Conroy as the winner of River City Publishing’s Fred Bonnie Award and a 2003 Massachusetts Book Awards honoree. A frequent humor contributor at McSweeney’s, Lisa received a 2025 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant. She lives outside of Boston with her partner and two rescue cats.