Lisa Michelle Brown (born January 12, 1972)[1] is an American illustrator and writer whose books include Picture the Dead, How To Be, The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, and Baby, Mix Me A Drink.

She graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1993, and an MS in Communications Design from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1998.

On a cold autumn night, they head out in search of ″real children.″ Picture the Dead is a traditional ghost story with a visual twist.

Co-written with Adele Griffin, the visual clues allow the reader to unravel the mystery in step with (or ahead of) the narrator.

Haunted by the recent deaths of her twin brother and fiancé, seventeen-year-old Jennie Lovell forges an unlikely friendship with a Spiritualist photographer who helps her to expose tragic family secrets.