Lisa Schnebly Heidinger

Lisa Schnebly Heidinger is a native Arizonan whose written works all focus on the Grand Canyon State. The Great Granddaughter of Arizona pioneer Sedona Schnebly, she savors traveling the state to connect to all of its idiosyncratic charms.  A journalist for 25 years, she has reported for television, radio, newspaper, and magazine.  She has published three books and has won the Arizona Publishers Association’s highest award. 

CALLING ARIZONA HOME is the result of about a century’s worth of loving Arizona.  Fred and Lisa Schnebly Heidinger’s collaboration took them to more than 25 towns around the state, talking to people about their communities: what they love, what concerns them, and who they are as a town.

Included in CALLING ARIZONA HOME are tales of a woman who didn't know her husband's real name until they applied for a marriage license, a man who spent 45 years becoming part of Navajo community he loves, a man who says compared to Hawaii, Holbrook is paradise, and a women whose life has come full circle in Oak Creek Canyon, from a young ranching wife to a keeper of memories.