

Lisa Czarina Michaud is an American author and co-founder of Barre Chord Press, an indie publisher based just outside Paris. Like raw anthems scratched out on a detuned guitar in a bedroom 4-track, her stories explore what it means to be human. Soulful and unpolished, these tales are born in her attic office on a glitchy PC. Her coming-of-age novels explore the search for home, identity, lost loves, and the albums that soundtrack the highs, lows, and in-betweens.
She also pens The Vinyl Diaries, a weekly Substack diving into the stories behind her favorite songs, plays a “bad guitar,” and takes life advice from her cat Le Tigre, the house life coach who’s got it all figured out.
Slanted and Disenchanted is her debut novel. Somewhere in Hollywood is the continuation....