Lisa Dickey has worked as a freelance ghostwriter and book doctor since 1997. She has helped write and/or edit twelve published nonfiction books, including three New York Times Best Sellers, three New York Times Extended Best Sellers, and a Booklist Top Ten Business Book of 2001. Her professional services include writing book proposals, structuring book outlines, and editing and/or ghostwriting manuscripts.

Lisa began her writing career in 1994 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she wrote freelance articles for USA Today, The Moscow Times, Russian Life magazine and other publications. She also was a contributor to the Time Out Guide to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

In 1995, Lisa spent three months traveling across the length of Russia with photographer Gary Matoso, interviewing and photographing Russians along the way. Using a prototype digital camera and rickety phone connections, Lisa and Gary posted stories, photos and sound bites to The Russian Chronicles – the first comprehensive, real-time Web travelogue of its kind.

Ten years later, she went back to Russia to track down the people she’d met on that original journey. In the fall of 2005, she and photographer David Hillegas retraced the entire ’95 trip, from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg, posting photos and stories showing how the Russians she’d interviewed then were faring now. Their travelogue, The Russian Chronicles – 10 Years Later, ran as a blog for eleven weeks on the Washingtonpost.com website.

In 1997-98, Lisa worked for the Washingtonpost.com website, where she wrote feature articles and restaurant reviews, produced online discussion shows, and posted news to the site. She worked part time on ghostwriting, then turned to books full time in 1998.

Prior to her writing career, Lisa held a variety of positions, including Russian translator, nonprofit grant proposal writer, and lounge singer. She has served as a juror for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards and for the Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Program. A 1988 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature, she lives in Los Angeles.