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
Fiona B
Fiona’s passion for words was born in childhood, as she made up bedtime stories to help her brother sleep – though sometimes they kept him awake instead! She has a Master’s degree in English, and spent years honing her skills as a copywriter, then as creative director, at top international advertising agencies like BBDO, Young & Rubicam, and Ogilvy & Mather. Since moving to the UK from South Africa in 2019 (and staying at home like the rest of the world), she has rediscovered the art of storytelling purely for the love of it.
Netherlands
Senior
Kees Z
Kees behaalde een bachelor en master Sociale Psychologie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en volgde een post-bachelor Eindredactie van Teksten aan de Hogeschool Utrecht. Voordat hij als zelfstandig schrijver begon, deed hij werkervaring op bij allerlei maatschappelijke organisaties in Amsterdam. Hij werkte met daklozen, vluchtelingen, ouderen en mensen met schulden – als sociaal werker, onderzoeker, projectcoördinator en fondsenwerver. Het heeft zijn blik op de wereld permanent verruimd.
United Kingdom
Senior
Kathryn K
Kathryn wrote her first story at age five. Her favourite subject at school after English literature was history but she was more curious about the people who never made it into the history books. Who would write their stories? She's gone on to write and teach writing and has helped people start writing through creativity coaching and understands how daunting writing can be. This shouldn't stop anyone from getting their story on the page and she'd love to help you write your story. Kathryn is the author of Palimpsest, a novel; holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Creative Writing; and leads workshops on Stoic journalling, memory writing, meditative and therapeutic writing, and writing to leave behind a legacy.
United Kingdom
Premium
Antoinette T
Antoinette’s debut novel, Home to Cavendish, a blend of historical and contemporary fiction, was published by Poolbeg Press in 2019. Her second novel, The Secrets Left Behind, is due for publication in late 2020. Antoinette’s love affair with history and storytelling began at an early age. Rarely seen without a book in her hand, she has a BA Degree in English and History. After university she worked as a journalist before spending 15 years as a writer in corporate public relations. Energised by variety, she now works fulltime as a novelist, and freelance ghost writer and journalist.
United Kingdom
Junior
Natalie-Claire L
Natalie-Claire’s passion for personal development led to her writing career. She writes about life lessons and experiences. Her academic background in engineering allows her to simplify complex stories or ideas and present them to any audience. She combines her love for solving problems with her passion for helping people through coaching, writing and speaking. Her writing focuses on personal development, women, and diversity. Natalie-Claire has written for online and print publications such as Girl Geeks, AfroFutures and various personal development websites and SME Businesses.
United Kingdom
Premium
Fuad O
Fuad is a former entertainment journalist whose love of stories led him to his current position as a film producer, script advisor, story analyst and screenwriter. Having worked for over two decades in Hollywood and Bollywood, Fuad believes everyone has a great story to tell and enjoys hearing and documenting stories, then elevating them to allow a life’s lesson to take on thematic messages in hope of inspiring others. He’s ghostwritten biographies, been commissioned to write and edit film scripts and interviewed some true legends of the screen. Your story could be next!
United Kingdom
Senior
Vanwy A
Vanwy is an award-winning writer who has performed her work alongside Daljit Nagra, Imtiaz Dharker and Ian MacMillan. Her work has been exhibited in various art spaces and museums in London and Cornwall. She has been placed in many writing competitions and is published in a variety of anthologies. Vanwy has been a writer in residence at the Bloomsbury Festival many times. She obtained her Writing MA from the acclaimed Warwick University Writing Programme and her post-graduate qualification in teaching writing from the University of Cambridge. Vanwy teaches writing and her course, ‘Writing a Successful Memoir’, has been identified by the Workers Education Association as one of the most popular courses it has run nationally.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rhiannon H
Rhiannon is a published author with Penguin Random House and worked in non-fiction publishing for many years before becoming a freelance editor and ghost-writer. History enthrals her, from Regency sea captains’ diaries to stories of the social fallout from 20th century conflicts. Since learning about her Cornish and German ancestors who arrived in Australia in the nineteenth century, and great-grandparents who lived in India during the British Raj, she’s been fascinated by family histories. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, she now lives in London.
Netherlands
Senior
Annemiek E
‘Het leest alsof mijn moeder er weer even is, alsof ik haar weer hoor praten.’ Mijn wens is om het unieke in ieder mens te ontdekken en te verwoorden. Dat bracht mij tot schrijverschap. Ruim vijftig levensportretten heb ik inmiddels op mijn naam staan. Mijn kracht? Oog en oor voor mensen, openheid creëren, en beeldend schrijven. Mijn werk leest daardoor als een persoonlijke documentaire. Naast schrijver ben ik zelfstandig bedrijfspsycholoog en coach in Amsterdam.
United Kingdom
Senior
Nicki B
Following an extensive marketing career within the music, film and publishing world for Time Warner, Virgin and Viacom, Nicki set up her own PR Consultancy with Dreamworks Films USA as her first client. She founded ‘The Influential Women Podcast’ as host presenter and executive producer and has appeared as a radio guest and presenter on BBC Essex, BBC Radio Suffolk and Cambridge 105FM. Her passion for storytelling, positive good news stories and strong narrative with an emotive arch is what drives her stories, giving women and men a voice while supporting health and wellness.
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
Junior
Tumi T
A lyrical artist; Tumi takes words and makes worlds out of them. From an early age, she discovered the quiet power of language: how a stanza could become a stage, a paragraph a palace, and how even the ugliest truths could be woven into a beautiful legacy. With a MA in Creative Writing, she knows the power of storytelling and believes everyone is a main character in their story. Therefore, everyone has a story to tell. She loves to travel and soak up the sun in different parts of the world.
United Kingdom
Senior
Cara B
As a professional writer, fiction editor, and creative translator (DE-EN), Cara knows how to tap into that emotional bond between writer and reader. A writer of historical fiction (her novel was shortlisted in the Cinnamon Press Pencil Prize), she understands what makes a story work and how to communicate through effective prose. With research degrees from Glasgow and Oxford, she is an expert in getting to the core of your story and presenting your narrative in a clear and engaging way. A passionate gardener, Cara loves to help flowers and stories flourish.
United Kingdom
Premium
Patric M
Patric is a multi-award-winning and bestselling author and ghostwriter whose work has been read by millions, both in print and online. Specialising in memoirs, he has over 20 years of professional writing experience. He has written books and screenplays for high profile celebrities but being able to capture and retell the lives of individuals is one of the greatest services and honours he feels he can offer. As one client once told him, ‘When I’m gone, I’ll be able to speak directly to my descendants through my book.’
Netherlands
Senior
Hagar J
‘Later word ik journalist.’ Als kind had Hagar jarenlang een briefje boven haar bed hangen met die woorden. Inmiddels is ze vierendertig en heeft ze geschreven voor tientallen kranten en tijdschriften, waaronder NRC, Trouw en Flow. Ze maakte verhalen in binnen-en buitenland. Bijvoorbeeld in Spanje waar ze vijf jaar correspondent was voor onder andere het Parool. Tegenwoordig woont Hagar weer in haar geboortestad Amsterdam en schrijft ze vooral over psychologie, carrière en het leven van de hedendaagse dertiger.
United Kingdom
Senior
Stella K
Stella has a Master’s degree with distinction in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Her fiction, poetry and life writing has been published by The Mechanics Institute Review, Blue Nib, Pyramid Press, Southbank Poetry and theotherstories.org, and she is currently working on a collection of short stories. With a first degree in Linguistics with French, and a background in subtitling, teaching and copy editing, she has worked for many years as a writing coach and dyslexia tutor in higher education. From this mix Stella brings to story writing a special ability to find the most unique and interesting human material and distil it into polished, captivating text. Stella has two grown-up children and lives with her husband in their empty nest in South-East London. She is a keen swimmer, sings in a soul gospel choir, and loves long, fast train journeys.
United Kingdom
Senior
Susan G
Susan began her working life in sales and retail management, but wanted to learn more about business, so took the leap and started an accountancy training contract with a mid-tier firm. After qualifying, she spent six years in various finance roles. In 2015, she began developing and audience-testing both comic and more dramatic scripts for theatre and short film. Committed to words and stories in their different forms, she retrained as a journalist and audio producer, works freelance, and is writing her first novel.
United Kingdom
Premium
Alex B
Alex is an academic, model, fashion activist and writer. She has recently published a book about contemporary fashion in Indonesia, and is currently researching fashion, embroidery and social integration of refugees. Of Italian origin, Alex was schooled in Italy and in the UK and studied for her degree(s) in London, obtaining a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from SOAS, University of London. She has travelled extensively in south and southeast Asia, and lectured at several universities in the UK and Europe.
United Kingdom
Senior
Anne-L
Anne-Louise is a natural storyteller, with a genuine warm interest in people and she loves nothing better than unlocking your stories. A former English teacher, for the past decade she has been working as a features writer for a Bristol magazine, focusing on community good news. She takes great pleasure too, meeting her varied guests on her radio show, which provides her with a platform to celebrate her love of the outdoors and to share her podcasts, Walking & Talking. Anne-Louise is well experienced in interviewing people and conveying their narrative in a print, digital or audio format.
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
Premium
Pia A
I studied French and Drama at Manchester University and then got a job for a French speaking touring theatre company, travelling around the UK, and the Channel Islands and also in Canada. Subsequently, I worked as a dramaturg in the Literary Department at the Royal Court Theatre developing the plays of fledgling writers, as well as writing myself, for the Royal Court Young People’s theatre and Lewisham and Peckham youth theatres. I then moved into television and for the past twenty years have been working as a Script Writer, Script Editor, Executive Producer and Development Producer for various television production companies.
United Kingdom
Premium
Francis W
Francis used to be found roaming Southeast Asia, where he lived and worked as a journalist for six years, writing for The Guardian, TIME and others. He published his first book in 2017, on the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and now lives back in London where he continues to write. He has a deep love of the craft of storytelling, and uses journalism as an excuse to sit for hours and talk with people about the worlds they inhabit.
United Kingdom
Premium
Chris H
With an insatiable passion for people and a fascination with how life-threatening illnesses can be incredibly inspirational, Chris is the proud author of two critically-acclaimed books. Through competing in international sport and equipped with an entrepreneurial spirit, his life has been one of innovation, by pioneering new corporate performance concepts, creating new businesses, producing and directing TV documentaries and writing about life. He has also been a Samaritans councillor and trainer.
United Kingdom
Senior
Soraya M
Born into a multicultural family in Alexandria, Egypt, Soraya has spent most of her life translating the intricate cultural barriers of her childhood into nuanced narratives about fascinating characters she’s encountered. An award-winning short story author, she’s also written and blogged extensively about street art and culture, and feels most comfortable when travelling alone, immersing herself in local cultures around the world and attempting her best to communicate with empathy and curiosity whenever language barriers arise. She prefers being barefoot on sand whenever possible.
Related articles
What is a Ghostwriter? Why Work with a Ghostwriter?
Ghostwriting brings stories to life by helping people capture their experiences in a compelling, authentic voice. Learn how this unique collaboration works to capture memories and transform them into beautifully crafted memoirs.
What You Get When You Work With StoryTerrace
When you work with StoryTerrace you have a whole team of experts on your side. Here's an introduction to everyone who helps bring your memoir to life.
Interview With a Writer: Michele Vrouvas
Michele Vrouvas is a StoryTerrace writer with experience writing about history, law, education and food. Read more about her work with StoryTerrace here.
%20(1200%20x%20626%20px).webp)
How to Write a Successful Business Book: 10 Essential Tips You Need to Know
Create a business book that establishes you as a thought leader and allows you to stand out in the crowd.
.webp)
Family History Books: How to Document Your Ancestry for Future Generations
There’s immense value in capturing your family history—for today, tomorrow, and for future generations. Here’s how to create a keepsake for the ages.
.webp)
AI Book Writing: How to Use AI for Writing a Book
Discover how to effectively use AI for book writing, leveraging its strengths and avoiding potential pitfalls. We’ll also share our insights into the best AI for writing books, which involves the human touch.
.jpg)
.webp)
