The Largest Selection of Specialist Writers In The World
With the largest selection of specialist writers in the world, we can match you with the perfect biographer for your book based on your background, goals, personality and location. You can work with junior, senior and premium writers.
All writers
United Kingdom
Junior
Helen F
As a published author of several books, two of which were oral histories, articles and short stories, Helen is adept at engaging people into relaying their stories in a relaxed and interesting manner. A Diploma in Creative Writing from the Regent Academy, London and a background as a legal secretary, has given Helen the skills to write professionally and precisely. Free time is spent researching her Italian ancestor from newspaper archives, online resources and original material; sewing with her vintage machines; enjoying time with the family exploring the outdoors, driving and maintaining their classic vehicles.
United Kingdom
Senior
Andrea MW
Andrea was educated abroad, as her father was a diplomat. After returning to England she studied history and theory of art, and later worked for David (now Lord) Puttnam as a film researcher while writing on Islamic art for Sotheby’s. After her two sons were born, she moved into journalism. She is now a freelance writer reporting to BBC Culture, the Financial Times, the Telegraph and other titles on subjects ranging from looting of antiquities by Islamic State to Japanese textiles. Her passions include piano and photography. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
United Kingdom
Premium
Rick B
Rick is an award-winning author and journalist for The Times. He has interviewed celebrities ranging from Usain Bolt to Sir Bobby Charlton, and has also developed a literacy scheme to get young people reading and writing. Rick has written nine books of his own, including ghosted autobiographies of Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill, and Jeremy Keeling, a maverick who built an ape sanctuary. He was short-listed three times for the prestigious William Hill Prize and won the British Sports Book Awards. He is nice, friendly (so he says) and a good listener.
Canada
Premium
Ellen G H
Ellen grew up around the Southern NJ and Philadelphia areas and now lives near Ottawa, Canada. She has written 12 books (four of which are award-winners), contributed to 15 others, and has written hundreds of articles for print magazines and websites. She served as president of the Catholic Writers Guild from 2012-2015 and composed articles and press releases for a small non-profit from 2015-2018. When she’s not writing, Ellen enjoys spending time with her husband of 40 years, her extended family (especially her two-year-old grandson) and researching her family tree.
United Kingdom
Senior
Rosie P
Rosie is a novelist and yoga teacher. When she isn’t writing, she is either boxing in London Fields or teaching maths to thirteen-year-olds. Rosie studied English at Cambridge University and her first novel, What Red Was – the story of a young woman overcoming the trauma of sexual assault – was published by Vintage in 2019. Rosie has written for Red Magazine and the Paris Review, and is an adamant believer in the power of narrative as a means of both processing and celebrating the extraordinary experience that is being human.
United Kingdom
Senior
Aude K
Aude is a writer and workshop facilitator. Aude’s first novel was published by the publishing company Dagan. Aude designs and leads creative communications training and workshops for Expedia, UK Black Pride, Amnesty International, Stonewall, Livity, etc. She writes scripts and directs films. Her newest short film, Pearls, was selected at Bafta-qualifying festival Iris Prize, Wxool festival, and more. Her articles has been published in magazines such as Complex UK, Style Caster, Gal-Dem, Okay Africa, and The Guardian. She likes traveling, swimming, learning new languages and going to the museum.
United Kingdom
Senior
Caroline W
Caroline is a historian, passionate about telling the tales of ordinary folk. A proud Liverpudlian, she studied history at Cambridge University. She became a solicitor, latterly as a Director of Legal, but returned to study her first love, obtaining a doctorate from Oxford University. Her research, inspired by her port town roots, led ultimately to a fellowship at the National Maritime Museum. She is now writing a book based on that research, The Forgotten Boys of the Sea. See www.carolinewithall.com. She enjoys piano, dancing and activities with her family.
United Kingdom
Junior
Iris G
Iris is a London-based freelance journalist, copywriter and aspiring novelist. Having grown up in France with a French father and Yorkshire-born mother, Iris moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA, before landing in London in 2017. Her work, which mainly spans lifestyle, wellness, relationships and pop culture, has appeared in a wide range of publications, including InStyle, Stylist, Metro, Cosmopolitan, SheKnows, Alma and more. When not firmly planted behind her pink laptop, she can be found at various fitness classes or at the cinema for the third time that week.
United Kingdom
Senior
Shikainah C
When Shikainah is not practicing as a psychologist with the NHS, specialising in trauma and refugee groups and contributing to the World Health Organisation’s global clinical practice network, she works as a freelance writer and theatre reviewer. Shikainah speaks fluent Hindi, Urdu and Tamil, devours Agatha Christies, savours Earl Grey tea at 4pm and cooks for her family and friends. She held on to her little Nokia phone until 2019, at which point she was finally forced to upgrade to a smartphone in order to keep up with her work.
United Kingdom
Premium
Alison A
Having studied French and German at Oxford, worked for more than 25 years in financial communication and translation, as well as publishing a memoir of three transformational years living in Sweden with her family (So Sweden – Living Differently) Alison has a real passion for language and helping people tell their stories. She has lived abroad in France, too, and her work with Story Terrace has encompassed the stories of people from Denmark, Lebanon, Iran, Vietnam, Russia and Australia with the particular themes of family roots and culture which their international lives have brought, as well as those of people who have spent part of their lives in Germany, America, India, Pakistan, Wales and all around the UK. Her work has also included books with a business focus, including an insight into fintech regulation, a book inspiring people to set up their own small businesses and another exploring what it takes to start from nothing in business in a foreign country. She has also edited a number of books. Alison has written 25 books so far and loved every minute of the privileged relationship a StoryTerrace writer develops with their story tellers, and the amazing perspective people have when they have lived through decades of great change. An avid traveller, gardener, cook and lover of the arts, she spends her free time with her family, playing tennis, walking her dog Twiglet, reading, and going to concerts, the cinema and theatre as often as possible.
United Kingdom
Senior
Caroline P
Caroline found her writing niche while working on her MA in Biography & Creative Non Fiction at UEA. She has written about a 1930s Barnardo’s child, the discovery of a GI baby’s American family, an Auschwitz survivor’s relationship with her tattooed prisoner number, and a Polish woman’s childhood years in Siberia. Aged nineteen, Caroline moved to New York City without work, a return ticket, or a plan. For twenty years Caroline moved between New York, California and London, raising two children along the way. Apart from writing, Caroline enjoys long walks, expansive sandy beaches and singing her heart out.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
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Helen Francis
Helen Francis is a freelance editor and book consultant who has worked in publishing for over twenty years, primarily as an editor and book scout. She was a project editor at Faber and Faber for eight years, and a commissioning editor at Head of Zeus for two, mostly focused on building a literary fiction list. She also ran the classics list at Vintage, Penguin Random House, and was a commissioning editor for Arcadia Books. She’s worked at literary agencies Abner Stein Associates and MMB Creative. She’s been an international book scout, based in both Barcelona and London, and has taught writing and editing at Bath Spa University, the Faber Academy, and on a residential Arvon course. She is also currently one of the tutors on Jericho Writer’s Ultimate Novel Writing Course.
United Kingdom
Senior
Cate L
Cate realised she loved writing when she won a national competition, aged eight, for an essay on nuts. Curious by nature, she enjoys exploring the past, leading to a history degree and, later, a journalism postgrad. Cate’s career began with book reviews and progressed to editing magazines, bringing to life stories on everything from soaps to skiing. She’s also a sometime blogger, a mentor to students – and a Scot who’s wild about London. Cate treasures her roots; if she’s not out walking with friends, she’s probably planning a family get-together.
United Kingdom
Junior
Andy S
An author of two novels with more to come, Andy also writes award winning poetry (Nottingham Festival of Words competition runner up 2014). The writing bug was buzzing around him for years, and once caught, it never left. Andy has an interest in a wide range of music including classical, popular and traditional, and he plays guitar in solo and ensemble formats, as well as writing song lyrics. His novels centre on family histories, carefully crafted from listening to family members and from available sources. A well-established career as a therapist has given him many opportunities to hear about people’s lives. His writing experience and achievements have illustrated the value of recording personal life stories, where a person’s history can touch so many.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rebecca C
Rebecca is a writer and documentary-maker and was one of the first writers to join our pool. Alongside writing, she directs and produces observational documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. While studying English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, she trained as a helpline counsellor and worked as a journalist for a mental health magazine. Rebecca grew up in the Nottinghamshire countryside surrounded by dogs, cats and a family of six; being one of triplets. She is a keen swimmer, rock climber and photographer.
Canada
Senior
Shreya K
Shreya’s birth outside of her home country in Singapore was a portentous one, setting her up for a life of travel. Growing up in the multicultural milieu of six countries, listening to people’s stories, their way of life became a way for her to integrate into new places. She ultimately combined her two grand passions for life and people by graduating with degrees in philosophy and journalism, giving her a platform to tell reflective and empowering stories. Her work has been published in VICE, Huffpost, The Independent, and others. She’s also a yoga teacher, poet, self-certified philosopher, and a firm believer of savoring every bit of life till its very last drop.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Kate Walsh
Kate entered the publishing industry via in-house foreign rights in a literary agency, moving on to academic editorial and landing in hugely commercial non-fiction agenting for the past nine years. As an agent, she worked predominantly with talent-led and celebrity memoirs, autobiographies and biographies, as well as a broad spectrum of music, history and sport titles, and was instrumental in the success of some of the biggest non-fiction bestsellers of the last few years. Bringing out the true essence and emotion of someone’s story is her bread and butter, and she’s passionate about honest, resonating storytelling. In her free time, Kate loves theatre, travel, snow sports and sampling London’s ever-growing restaurant selection.
United Kingdom
Senior
Liam T
Liam has been writing professionally for the last five years and as an amateur for as long as he can remember. His work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, Rolling Stone, the Independent, Vice, Huffington Post and The Lancet. As a journalist he has interviewed everyone from former prime ministers to Russian dissidents. He is currently working on his first novel, and is also a keen guitarist, playing in a folk band while finding the time to raise his young family.
United Kingdom
Senior
Charlotte B
Charlotte has worked as a journalist for a number of publications from the Independent to Prima, as well as organisations within the non-profit and charity sector. She is the author of four children’s books, in the Ultimate Football Heroes series, which tell the biographical stories of professional female footballers. Most recently, she wrote Great British Spirit: Acts of Kindness and Heroism, a compendium of stories featuring British figures from the 20th century and today. She probably couldn’t write or live without music and loves playing her favourite songs on piano.
United Kingdom
Junior
Oliver M
After graduating from Oxford with a degree in French and Russian, Ollie has been learning more languages in the few years since. He has lived and worked abroad in several different countries, and has been writing pretty much constantly. He has produced short stories and a novel, as well as some travel writing. He is also a published translator of Georgian short fiction. Ollie runs the ‘Ollie and Sebastian’ YouTube channel with his friend Sebastian, which has taken them to a war zone and a country that doesn’t officially exist.
United Kingdom
Premium
Caroline F
Caroline has for a long time inhabited an unusual space between entertainment and ethics. The former kept her busy in journalism for two decades, working first for the BBC, the latter took her to Australia to study, and the combination meant that Rupert Murdoch indirectly paid for her degree in Global Justice. She is now a writer and broadcaster, the author of three bestselling memoirs and always especially moved by tales of great romance and personal redemption.
United Kingdom
Senior
Aileen OB
Aileen has always loved stories. From a book-obsessed child, she went on to a career as a magazine journalist. She has been privileged to be allowed into the lives of the famous and non-famous as they shared their experiences. As well as writing for magazine titles from Hello! to Ideal Home and TV Times, she is an experienced book editor. Aileen is a trained actress and has worked in theatres all over the country. Half Irish, she grew up in the Peak District and now lives in Hastings.
United Kingdom
Junior
Zoe K
Born and raised in the US, Zoe moved to Cardiff to get her BA in Journalism, Media and English Literature. She has written for a number of online publications, covering everything from current events to book and theatre reviews. She likes to have a finger in every literary pie, having published poetry as well as writing and directing her own one-act play. When she’s not writing, you can find her feeding the local birds, baking, or curled up with a book.
United Kingdom
Senior
Humphrey K
Humphrey is a qualified lawyer, seasoned journalist, historian and biographer. He mostly writes for law firms, and has clocked up six law firm histories. He likes to weave personal stories in with social and political history. He wrote the life story of his father-in-law, a diplomat whose professional life was dominated by the Cold War, and of his former boss’s father and mother, whose lives spanned the 20th century. When not penning words, Humphrey is often to be found on the sports field or attending concerts (more recently, in his mind).
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