A small studio of big feelings, run from a kitchen table in the Hudson Valley.

A few years ago, I was holding my hand on the soft head of a very old dog and trying to find the right words for a four-year-old. There weren't any — at least not on the bookshelf. So I started writing. The little book that came out is now called Heaven is Amazing, and it began everything else.

I've spent most of my life telling stories to small people. As a kid, I told them to my stuffed animals. As a teacher, I told them at carpet time. As a mom, I told them at bedtime — and somewhere in the middle of all of that, I noticed how much grown-ups need stories too. We just call them other things. Memoirs. Essays. Magazine articles. Texts to a friend at midnight.

Lisa's Writing is the small studio I built around that idea. I make a few things, slowly and on purpose: a picture book about a dog and a meadow, an early-reader bundle starring a pinchy little crab named Twinkle, and a slow photo zine called the Hudson Valley Happizine — full of permissions to make things, badly and joyfully and at any age.

Every product here is built with the same question in mind: could a child carry this around? Could they read it, feel it, fold it, keep it in a shoebox under the bed? Even the things I make for adults are, in some quiet way, for the kid we used to be.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for caring about small, careful things. I hope something on these pages reaches you on the right day.

— with so much love,
Lisa