Lisa Shiroff
Author. Humorist. Pop Psychology Junky.
Stories about finding joy in the chaos.
Life is messy. People are weird. Plans rarely survive contact with reality.
Good thing there’s usually something to laugh about.
I write funny, heartfelt fiction about women navigating friendship, identity, reinvention, resilience, and the wonderfully ridiculous business of being human.
My characters aren’t looking for perfect lives. They’re looking for lives that actually fit.
And sometimes, finding that life means making a mess first.
My most recent release:
Coffee with Vodka
A story about friendship, finding yourself, and discovering that your weirdness might be your superpower.
Some women become friends.
Some women become family.
And some women come together because life has thrown them into the same beautiful, chaotic mess.
Coffee with Vodka is a funny, heartfelt story about the power of women’s friendships, the courage to embrace who you really are, and the community we create when we stop trying to be someone we’re not.
Because we’re all a little weird.
And that’s not something to fix.
It’s something to celebrate.
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What I Write About
My stories tend to begin with women whose lives aren’t quite working the way they expected.
Maybe they’re taking care of everyone except themselves.
Maybe they’re living the life they think they’re supposed to want.
Maybe they’re avoiding something that scares them.
Maybe they’ve spent years trying to hide the parts of themselves that make them different.
Eventually, something has to give.
That’s when things get interesting.
I write about women finding their voices, finding their people, and finding the courage to become more fully themselves.
There’s usually friendship.
There’s usually trouble.
There’s always humor.
And, because life doesn’t come with a predictable plot, there may be a dead body or two.
Finding Joy in the Chaos
I believe the strange, messy, inconvenient parts of being human are often where the best stories—and sometimes the best parts of life—live.
I’m fascinated by the things that make us human: why we behave the way we do, the stories we tell ourselves, the expectations we inherit, the choices we make, and the people who help us see ourselves differently.
That’s probably the pop psychology junky in me.
I don’t write characters who have everything figured out.
I write characters who are figuring it out.
Just like the rest of us.