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
Senior
Lisa D
Lisa is a biographer, end-of-life doula, and copywriter with more than 20 years’ experience in communication and management roles across healthcare, community, and not-for-profit organisations. She considers her superpower to be her ability to connect with people. Her passion lies in helping individuals record their stories in their own words. What she values most is creating a space where people feel safe to share whatever is on their mind and in their heart, knowing they will be listened to without judgement. She sees it as a privilege to shape those stories into authentic narratives that honour a life well lived.
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
Junior
Jonathan G
Jonathan is a former stand-up comedian who now works as an award-winning conceptual copywriter in advertising. Since gaining a First-Class degree in Creative Writing he has written in virtually every medium there is but most enjoys the chance to tell unusual and emotional real-life stories. He has written a social history of stand-up comedy in the 21st century for which he interviewed over fifty people in the comedy industry. After having completed a highly selective novel writing course run by legendary literary agency Curtis Brown he has also finished his first novel.
United Kingdom
Senior
Russ S
Russ is a self-confessed geek who loves to explore subjects in detail. He has written for publications as diverse as Encyclopedia Britannica and Private Eye, for national newspapers including the Times, Guardian, and Financial Times, and for a large number of magazines and websites. He has edited engineering and scientific magazines, and is the author of The Physics Behind…, a book explaining the science that makes the modern world tick. He grew up on Tyneside, and lived and worked in Scotland, Sheffield, and London before settling in Nottinghamshire. He enjoys walking his dog and tinkering with motorbikes.
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
Senior
Charlotte
Charlotte has two History degrees, 16+ years of experience in editing and writing. She also has a non-fiction book published, it’s about people looking to move into a healing/therapy career and is half interviews and case studies, and half her own research. Charlotte has a beautiful dog, almost 12 (11 and ¾) and lives in Kent on the coast.
United Kingdom
Premium
Helena D
Helena is never bored. She started her career in publishing as a non-fiction editor before becoming a journalist contributing to both regional and national titles including the Guardian and Independent. Now, as a freelance journalist and The Sunday Times No 1 bestselling ghostwriter, she divides her time between discovering what makes the world tick alongside helping others bring their stories to life. Having reported from America, India, Africa and Europe, she loves travel, food, politics and the arts, in particular theatre and dance.
United Kingdom
Senior
Divya G
Divya holds a First Class degree in English Studies, an MA in Creative Writing and an MPhil in Literary Studies. Her novel in progress has been longlisted and shortlisted for six literary awards. She lives between the UK and Berlin and teaches creative writing for The Reader Berlin. She also co-hosts STRIKE short story club for the UK’s leading literary salon, The Word Factory. Divya writes fiction, non-fiction, and is a trained oral historian. She is currently finishing her novel and doing freelance writing and editing 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
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
Lisa D S
Lisa has always loved stories. Listening to stories, telling stories and creating stories, so it’s no wonder she works as a journalist and writer of memoirs. Everyone has a story inside of them and Lisa enjoys nothing more than hearing about the life experiences and anecdotes of others. A published author, when she’s not writing, Lisa can be found either reading or playing poker – but that’s another story.
United Kingdom
Senior
Laura S
Laura is a freelance writer, teacher, and author. As the founder of Derbyshire Writing School, Laura is passionate about helping others write their stories and find their voice. She regularly teaches memoir courses and runs writing retreats. Laura has an MA in Creative Writing and lectures at the University of Derby. You’ll often find Laura in a café, drinking buckets of black coffee and eating an obscene amount of cake. If she had one superpower, it would be reading a book just by touching the cover. Can you imagine?
United Kingdom
Senior
Emily K
Emily’s love of books and the written word has taken her across the globe on trips both physical and fictional. She started her career editing poetry chapbooks and literary fiction for Brick House Books in Baltimore, Maryland, but when a job to copy edit and proofread non-fiction books in Dublin came across her desk, she leapt at the chance to explore a new country. Now settled in England, via New Zealand, Emily spends her days writing and editing romance, historical fiction, and narrative non-fiction books.
United Kingdom
Premium
Sara W
Sara’s career as a journalist has taken her from the Insight investigative team on The Sunday Times to 5 years living in Miami and Washington DC researching and writing investigative non-fiction books to a continuing career as a contract writer for publications that included The Sunday Times Magazine and Conde Nast Traveller. Her research allowed her to travel the world while based in a medieval hilltop village in Provence, an experience she describes as a “privilege”. Back in London, she continues to find stories that excite and inspire her.
United Kingdom
Junior
Masimba M
Masimba is a screenwriter, novelist, essayist and blogger. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1976, and moved to the UK in 2002, settling in the North East England town of Middlesbrough. He has been published all over the world, mostly in the speculative fiction realm. In the real world, he takes a keen interest in international and local history, culture and society, politics, and, of course, biography. He believes that everyone has a story or a perspective of a bigger story waiting to be told and preserved for future generations, and is always ready to work with people who are ready to tell theirs.
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
Josephine G
Josephine loves stories: both fictional and other people’s life experiences. Despite having careers in education and the travel industry, she always aimed to return to university and complete a writing MA. After graduating from The Manchester Writing School, she went on to have stories published in anthologies and literary journals. Her recent story ‘Going Downhill’ was chosen for The Best British Short Stories 2021. Having just successfully completed a ghostwriting project with a prestigious client, she welcomes the privilege and satisfaction of being trusted to bring personal stories to life.
United Kingdom
Senior
Felice H
Felice’s career has been in journalism. She started as a sub-editor on Vogue and Brides magazines, followed by many years as a freelance travel writer. She has written for almost every national newspaper in the UK, and for magazines such as Condé Nast Traveller, Country Life, and House & Garden. She has written 18 travel guide books, and has just finished writing her own family memoir.
United Kingdom
Premium
Craig M
Craig has written 1,001 stories with people from all walks of life. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex, and his novel, The Belle Hotel, is a family saga set at a seaside hotel over three generations (described as ‘a great read’ by Matt Haig). Craig ran custom publishing for Rough Guides/Penguin Random House and has been writing the story of people, families and businesses since the last century.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jennifer S
Jennifer is a freelance professional musician who studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She continued her post-graduate studies in the USA on a scholarship and has travelled internationally as an orchestral and solo musician. This has provided wonderful opportunities to develop her writing skills and her latest published novel is set in Italy. Jennifer is passionate about writing poetry and also contributes articles to various online platforms, including ‘Spotlight’. She now lives in rural Normandie, but continues to work in the UK both as a musician and writer.
Netherlands
Senior
Persis B
Persis (1987) debuteerde met de roman Een heldenleven (Prometheus, 2018), die werd genomineerd voor de ANV Debutantenprijs (shortlist). Ze schrijft essays, interviews en literaire kritiek voor onder andere NRC Handelsblad, De Gids en Mister Motley. Haar werk bestrijkt een breed cultureel spectrum, waaronder literatuur, beeldende kunst en de podiumkunsten, en werpt een kritische blik op hedendaagse politieke en maatschappelijke discussies. Persis is ook een graag geziene gast op culturele podia en festivals, waaronder recentelijk Crossing Border, Gaudeamus Muziekweek en Wiener Festwochen. Haar tweede roman Exces kwam in april 2021 uit, tevens bij Prometheus, en ontving goede recensies. beeld: Stine Sampers.
United Kingdom
Junior
Anna-Laila J
Anna is a passionate reader and daydreamer. She began writing creatively during her undergraduate degree in American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her poetry and short stories were published in the University’s Student Anthology as well as in Napizum Magazine. Anna holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Exeter and loves living in the South West of England. Whether they are told on paper or on screen, she believes that our stories connect us to one another in our shared human experience.
United Kingdom
Premium
Jean E
Jean has been writing stories since she was a child. In 2017, she published Goodbye Burma, a fictionalised account of her family’s evacuation from wartime Burma. Starting out as a historian, she spent two years in India searching for private papers and interviewing politicians active in the independence movement. Since then, Jean has travelled widely in Africa and South Asia and has two published books on communities in the north of England. Jean has been working as a freelance writer and editor for eight years, and enjoys bringing family histories and stories to life.
United Kingdom
Senior
Margaret R
Margaret is an author and writer with a special interest in listening to people’s memories and getting them down on paper. Her latest book Creative, Successful, Dyslexic includes interviews with Darcey Bussell, David Bailey, Lord Richard Rogers, Zoe Wanamaker and others about their childhoods and beyond. She interviewed countless interesting personalities during her many years of magazine writing and believes everyone has a story to tell. Margaret is especially keen to preserve people’s memories for their children and grandchildren to value and enjoy.
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