Hello horror and short story fans! Author, Lisa Slage Robinson, will be at Werner Books & Coffee on Sunday, July 12 from 12-2 PM signing her debut short story collection, Esquire Ball!
Esquire Ball is going to be the Horror Book Club's July book and Lisa Slage Robinson will be attending the book club to talk to attendees, answer questions, and engage in discussion around her book on Sunday, July 12 at 7 PM!
Esquire Ball is a debut collection of thirteen linked short stories orbiting a fictional law firm and a young female attorney navigating ambition and power in a traditionally white male sphere. Set in 1980s Northwest Ohio—a region once known as the Great Black Swamp—the stories explore the buried violence of drained land and lives altered by ambition, loss, and transformation. In this surreal terrain, men marry frog wives; souls are trapped in farmhouse windows; a woman shares cosmic truths through an improbable threesome; a lawyer stalks her client for a keepsake; and a law student glimpses the future in a museum of medieval torture. Blending fairytale, myth, and a Midwestern Gothic sensibility, Esquire Ball nods to Borges, Kafka, and du Maurier, delivering a drifting, grotesque mosaic of stories slightly askew.
Lisa Slage Robinson writes to explore invisible landscapes and magical feminism. She is the author of Esquire Ball, Stories from the Great Black Swamp (Black Lawrence Press, February 2026). Named a finalist for Midwest Review's Great Midwest Fiction Contest, her work appears in or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review, Atticus Review, Smokelong Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, PRISM International, Storm Cellar, Lit Pub, Necessary Fiction, Drizzle, Meat for Tea and elsewhere. Lisa serves on the board of Autumn House Press. A former litigator and corporate attorney, she practiced law in the States and Canada.
