Lisa Hall Brownell

LISA HALL BROWNELL, a fiction writer and editor, believes that stories have the power to connect one person to another, and past to present. GALLOWS ROAD, inspired by true events in 1750s Connecticut, is her first novel; her second is VEE'S BRACELET, (release date Oct. 1, 2026) a dual-timeline historical novel that begins in the Great Depression. She graduated from Brown University and earned an M.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from San Francisco State University. A former media director for Mystic Seaport Museum and director of publications for Connecticut College, Brownell was editor of the award-winning CC: Magazine. A member of the Mystic River Writers, the author divides her time between coastal Connecticut and the mountains of western Maine.