Lisa is a television producer, cinematographer and writer. Her work has appeared on the CBC, The History Channel and The Life Network. Her writing has appeared in Vice Magazine and the Washington Post among other publications, and she is a frequent contributor to Nerve.com. Lisa Gabriele lives in Toronto.

The Almost Archer Sisters (2008)
Reminiscent of the 'opposite of love' about two sisters who love each other very much but have to learn to forgive each other for existing.
There were never such devoted sisters, or ones so hilariously and heartbreakingly conflicted about loyalty and love as the ones in Gabriele's brisk second novel (Tempting Faith DiNapoli). Thoughtful, married-mom Georgie Peachy Archer and big-city-girl Beth, her older sister, grow up on a Canadian farm with their hairdressing, Vietnam draft-dodging dad, Lou, and share the pain of their mom's suicide. But that's where the similarities end until the sisters swap lives for a weekend. Walking in Beth's shoes around New York City, Peachy meets Beth's discreet doorman, snarky friends and disapproving ex-boyfriend, and gets a crash course in understanding what her brash sister's really about. Here is a charming, smart and honest story of two sisters who learn to embrace the lives they have. Gabriele's writing is sharp and her heart is pure gold. This honest tale of passionate, mixed-up and forgiving families is hard to put down. (Oct.)
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World - Edizioni Piemme Spa; German - Aufbau Verlag

Tempting Faith DiNapoli (2002)
Gabriele's charming debut novel. Faith is the well-meaning eldest daughter of a dysfunctional Italian family living in 1970s Canada. With an absent father, three rambunctious siblings, and a mother who's trying to make the best of the life she's got instead of focusing on the life she wanted, young Faith takes it upon herself to assume religious responsibility and tries to be "good enough" to make up for the flaws of her whole family. She struggles between the person she is and the perfect one she wants to be, and it ultimately takes a test of faith for her to find self-acceptance and her place in the world.

Rights Sold
Doubleday Canada; Simon & Schuster US; Virago UK

"This book is innocently impious, purely vulgar, harmlessly violent, blamelessly profane, profanely spiritual, unambiguously funny and unabashedly unique. It explodes with the kind of raw, bawdy, chaotic, intemperate life force rarely found in Canadian literature."
- Hamilton Spectator