Lisa Cheek

About The Author

Lisa Cheek is an author and former film and television editor known for her humorous, candid writing about relationships and identity. Her debut memoir, Sit, Cinderella, Sit, was a People Magazine pick, an Amazon bestseller, a Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist, and was named one of Zibby Media’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025. Her latest memoir, The Big Day, is a funny, unflinching look at love, marriage, and the complicated question of whether to stay or walk away. You can find her musings at One Minute Thoughts From A Pink Head on Substack. She lives in Los Angeles with two dogs, two cats, and her husband, Big Johnson, where she has several scripts in various stages of development while working on her next memoir.

Books by Lisa Cheek

The Big Day

Saying "I Do" Only to Discover I Didn't – Another Mostly True Memoir

By Lisa Cheek
For fans of Sloane Crosley, another mostly true memoir from the acclaimed author of Sit, Cinderella, Sit about whether she’s finally ready for marriage before she turns fifty.

For years, Lisa Cheek believed commitment wasn’t in her genes. Her dating patterns wer...
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Sit, Cinderella, Sit

A Mostly True Memoir

By Lisa Cheek
For fans of Abigail Thomas and Sloane Crosley, a debut memoir and (sort of) Cinderella story about a woman who’d been told she was “too old” to create magic who flew to rural China, edited a film without speaking a word of Mandarin, and discovered her o...
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