cum laude from Radcliffe College/ Harvard University in Folklore & Mythology, her M.B.A. with honors from Simmons College Graduate School of Management, and after working as a sweater designer/manufacturer (Northern Lights) and a Fortune-1000 lender (First National Bank of Chicago) began writing at the age of 35.
Fisk's radio commentary is heard weekly on the News Hour of KVMR-FM (Thursdays, 6:25 p.m. Pacific Time), and is carried on community stations in Illinois, Colorado, Wisconsin, and California.
Fisk teaches creative writing classes on-line and works privately as a Life Coach in the Skills for Change tradition.
She has taught Writing to Heal, a technique that boosts the immune system, to cancer patients at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital since 2000.
Fisk's maternal great-grandfather, William Colet Johnson, helped to found Paul Revere Insurance.