Hair Brush with Fame by Lisa Johnson Mitchell

Hair Brush with Fame chronicles the celebrity encounters of Lisa Johnson Mitchell, who grew up surrounded by big hair, gossip, and Final Net in her father’s beauty shop in the Park Cities, the Beverly Hills of Dallas. In her formative years, she rubbed elbows in his salon with the movers and shakers of Big D, which primed her—propelled her—into the full embrace of even bigger stars in Manhattan and beyond: Russell Crowe, John Malkovich, and Prince Albert of Monaco. Funny, ungainly, and you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up real, Johnson Mitchell’s tales are a oh-so delicious romp you won’t long forget.

Lisa Johnson Mitchell‘s work has appeared in X-R-A-Y, Fictive Dream, and Cleaver, among others. One of her pieces was a Finalist in the 2022 London Independent Story Prize Competition. Another received First Place in the 2021 Button Eye Review Summer Contest and placed in the Top 10 of the 2020 Columbia Journal Short Fiction Contest. Other works have been honored by Glimmer Train, ScreenCraft, and PEN Women. She was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and holds an MFA from Bennington College.