Lisa Dickey

Lisa Dickey, co-writer of The Situation Room by George Stephanopoulos with Lisa Dickey, is a longtime author and book collaborator. She has helped clients write more than 20 published nonfiction books, including eleven New York Times Best Sellers. Lisa began her writing career in 1994 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she wrote articles for The Moscow Times and USA Today. Upon returning to the United States in late 1996, she worked with tech reporter Kara Swisher on her first book, AOL.COM. From that initial collaboration, she launched a career as a book collaborator.Over the next two decades, Lisa worked with high-profile clients such as Jill Biden, Patrick Swayze, Gavin Newsom, Cissy Houston, Herbie Hancock and Tammy Duckworth. 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 Grand Slam, Don’t Tell My Mother, Eat Your Words, and Drunk on Stage at Akbar. She 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. 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 and Washington DC.