Lisa Stringfellow writes middle-grade fiction and has a not-so-secret fondness for fantasy with a dark twist. Her debut fantasy, A Comb of Wishes, was selected as an ABA Indies Introduce title for Winter/Spring 2022, received starred reviews in BookPage and Youth Services Book Review, and garnered praise from Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Booklist, and The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. Lisa received the inaugural Kweli Color of Children’s Literature Manuscript Award in 2019 for the novel manuscript. Her work often reflects her West Indian and Black southern heritage. Lisa is a middle school teacher and lives in Boston, MA, with her children and two bossy cats.
She participates in writing communities through Inked Voices, GrubStreet, Kindling Words, and BosKidLit, and I’m a member of Middle Grade Coast-to-Coast, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Authors Guild, KidLit in Color, Black Creators in Kidlit, and The Brown Bookshelf‘s Amplify Black Stories cohort.
Lisa is represented by Lindsay Davis Auld of Writers House.
