

In 2009, she edited the anthology Midnight Walk, and her first novella, The Lucid Dreaming, was published by Bad Moon Books and went on to win the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction. In 2006, her short story "Tested" (from Cemetery Dance magazine) won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction. In the 1990s, Morton began publishing short horror fiction. As an animation writer, she wrote for the series Sky Dancers and Dragon Flyz. Morton also co-wrote the films Adventures in Dinosaur City, Tornado Warning, and Blood Angels. The film was shown at the Odeon London Film Festival, was selected to appear in London’s Shock Around the Clock Film Festival for 1989 and was one of 12 films selected to appear in the Avoriaz Film Festival. In 1988 she co-wrote (with make-up effects expert Tom Burman) Life On the Edge, which was later re-titled Meet the Hollowheads she also served as an Associate Producer on the film, and received an acting credit as "the Edge Slut" (in a scene that was cut from the film). Morton was born in Pasadena, California, and entered the film industry in 1979 as a modelmaker on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Lisa Morton (born December 11, 1958) is an American horror author and screenwriter.
