Lisa Stevens is an American editor, CEO and founder of Paizo Publishing, and COO of Goblinworks.

Stevens attended Saint Olaf College, where she met game designers Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen.

[3]: 232 Stevens joined Tweet and Rein-Hagen in the game company Lion Rampant, which published Ars Magica in 1987.

[3]: 232  Stevens pitched the idea of a merger to Rein-Hagen and Stewart Wieck,[3]: 235  and as a result Lion Rampant merged with White Wolf in 1990.

[2] While on the road to GenCon 23 in 1990 with Stevens and Wieck, Rein-Hagen envisioned the ideas for what became Vampire: The Masquerade, which the new company published in 1991.