About the Author

With twenty-five years of long-term relationship experience, including fourteen years of polyamory as well as several hundred dates under her belt, few people are as qualified to write about dating as Lise Angelica Johnson. As a film and television editor, it also comes naturally to her to see the story in anything. She received her BFA in film and television production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, which she attended on a talent-based tuition scholarship, after which she received a prestigious internship with the American Cinema Editors, becoming a member of The Motion Picture Editors Guild by the age of twenty-two. As a queer woman without any family money or connections, she carved a place for herself using sheer grit—the same grit and self-respect she brought to her romantic life.

Though she has had a few poems published in anthologies, this is her first book. She hopes it will help both people navigating ethical non-monogamy, people going through divorce or other romantic crises, and also people just looking for a good story.

Lise is now monogamously married to her husband, Johnson. Their first Bumble messages were published in the New York Times “Modern Love” article “The Flirts That Worked” in 2024. She lives with him and their rescued husky, Alaska, splitting their time between Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC.