About Lisa

Lisa Pell is a Virginia-based author and visual artist whose creative life spans fiction, impressionist oil paintings, well-researched writing on health information, and taste-tested recipes. She is best known for the Savory Survivor Cookbook — a collection of tasty, healthy recipes free of added salt, sugar, and migraine triggers, written for survivors of diabetes, breast cancer and migraine who refuse to sacrifice flavor.

Lisa's journey to the Savory Survivor Cookbook grew out of her own health challenges. Diagnosed with both diabetes and breast cancer, she discovered that most "healthy" cookbooks were either bland or still loaded with hidden salt and sugar. She set out to prove that healing food could also be genuinely delicious — and the result is a cookbook that celebrates joy at the table.

Beyond the kitchen, Lisa is a prolific visual artist whose work reflects her love of color, humor, and storytelling. Her paintings and illustrations have been shown at The Torpedo Factory Art League Gallery in Alexandria, VA, the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Kings Park Library in Burke, VA, the Springfield Golf and Country Club, and galleries across Virginia and North Carolina.

Lisa is also the author of the Dystortions series, a collection of satirical fiction that skewers modern life with wit and imagination, praised by reviewers as "enormously fun to read." Her novel, Who's Your Daddy, Baby? earned a Virginia Professional Communicators award and was applauded for "exceptional writing" by book reviewers. A reviewer for About.com (then part of the New York Times Company), wrote it was "one of the most clever novels if have read in recent years," and is "entertaining and endearing." The characters are "well developed and have extraordinary personalities." Lisa writes regularly on Substack at lisapell.substack.com, where she covers everything from cookbook censorship to artificial intelligence.

Lisa lives in Virginia with her husband. She can be reached at lisamcpell@gmail.com.