Lisa Kotin

Lisa Kotin was born and raised in Hillsborough, California. She survived childhood by doing plays about her family. And forcing them to watch. She first attended UCLA where she majored in dance and minored in sugar bingeing. Thousands of candy bars later she graduated NYU School of the Arts in Dramatic Writing. She worked as an office temp by day/solo performance artist by night. Her show TEMPORARY GIRL drew from experience working in over 100 offices. The show toured the U.S. and the U.K. She then wrote/directed/starred in TEMPORARY GIRL the movie, which Leonard Maltin called “Bright and original, with the definite ring of truth.” Her first book MY CONFECTION: ODYSSEY OF A SUGAR ADDICT is about three decades of trying to quit the sweet stuff. Michael Moss (Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us) called the manuscript “absorbing, compelling and soul-baring at its best.” Eve Schaub (Year of No Sugar) wrote "I am blown away by Kotin's candor and clarity. My Confection is a devastatingly witty, courageous and soul-baring memoir detailing one woman’s search for healing in the face of addiction. If ever anyone doubted the scientific finding that sugar can be more addictive than cocaine, they should read this book."