Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 2 October 1953) is an English novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist.

Her memoir Hacienda (1998) describes how she fell into a whirlwind first marriage at the age of 16 to an exiled Venezuelan aristocrat and bank robber, Jaime Terán,[3][4] and lived for seven years at a remote farm in the Andean region of Venezuela.

It was also in that year she published her first novel, Keepers of the House, winning her the Somerset Maugham Award and a place on Granta's list of "Best of Young British Novelists" (1983, issue #7).

In 1994, she presented "Santos to Santa Cruz", an episode of the BBC television series Great Railway Journeys, about travelling from Brazil to Bolivia,[7] and wrote an accompanying article for The Times.

[14] The Terán Foundation's first project, the College of Tourism and Agriculture (CTCA) in Cabaceira Grande, operated between 2004 and 2010, before it was sold back to the government.