Lisa Kartus has been a financial writer for magazines including Money, Time, and Forbes. She holds a journalism degree from Northwestern University, and taught writing and journalism at the college level for a decade.

Lisa teaches knitting in the Chicago area, and after knitting during graduate seminars, during office hours between student meetings, on commuter trains, and during corporate annual meetings, she finally decided to pursue writing about knitting.

Do you need a Knit Fix? Send your knitting problems to Lisa at knitmaven@sbcglobal.net and visit her web site, www.knitmaven.com