The Blue Ridge Mountains and the charming town of Asheville, North Carolina, are home to Liesel, her husband Don and their adopted non-human family. Liesel is part of the Gypsy Moon Writer’s Group that meets at Hookah Joe’s. Between lecturing to promote dialogue and healing between Jews and Germans throughout the generations, her animal rights and peace activities, she is finishing her second book, the psychological fiction thriller Third Generation which deals with destructive religious cults.