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name: Lisa Dickey
about: Lisa Dickey, author of Bears in the Streets (January 2017, St. Martin's Press), is a longtime author and book collaborator. She has helped clients write 17 published nonfiction books, including eight New York Times Best Sellers. Lisa began her writing career in 1994 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she wrote articles for The Moscow Times, Russian Life magazine and USA Today. Upon returning to the United States in late 1996, she worked with then-Washington Post reporter Kara Swisher on her first book, AOL.COM. From that initial collaboration, she launched a career as a ghostwriter and book doctor.Over the next two decades, Lisa worked with high-profile clients such as Patrick Swayze, Gavin Newsom, Cissy Houston, Herbie Hancock, Cathie Black, Lisa Dickey, author of Bears in the Streets (January 2017, St. Martin's Press), is a longtime author and book collaborator. She has helped clients write 17 published nonfiction books, including eight New York Times Best Sellers. Lisa began her writing career in 1994 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she wrote articles for The Moscow Times, Russian Life magazine and USA Today. Upon returning to the United States in late 1996, she worked with then-Washington Post reporter Kara Swisher on her first book, AOL.COM. From that initial collaboration, she launched a career as a ghostwriter and book doctor.Over the next two decades, Lisa worked with high-profile clients such as Patrick Swayze, Gavin Newsom, Cissy Houston, Herbie Hancock, Cathie Black, and Whitewater partner Susan McDougal. Her collaborations have spanned a vast array of topics, from politics to business to entertainment to international relations. Lisa is also an accomplished storyteller on stage, appearing at live events such as the Moth Story Slam, the Moth Grand Slam, Don’t Tell My Mother, Eat Your Words, and Drunk on Stage at Akbar. She has been a guest on the Barfly podcast and is a credited writer on the award-winning documentary film Letter to Anita.Prior to her writing career, Lisa worked as a Russian translator and, for nine glorious months, as a lounge singer in Japan. She has served as a juror for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards and for the Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Program, and she is a member of PEN America. A 1988 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature, she lives with her wife, the TV and film writer Randi Barnes, in Los Angeles. ...more