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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, unpolished tales born in her attic office on a glitchy PC—they’re indie, they’re punk rock, they're real life. 

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Originally from New York, Lisa is proud to call Olympia, WA, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and now France—her home for the past 16 years—puzzles pieces to her story. 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 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, her "life coach", Le Tigre, who’s got it all figured out.

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Slanted and Disenchanted is her debut novel.  Somewhere in Hollywood is the continuation.... ​