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.
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United Kingdom
Junior
Darius A
Darius' journey as a writer kickstarted with his desire to extend the memory of his existence past his lifetime, and with the mantra, "There is nothing more permanent than words inked onto paper". Studying English & Creative Writing at University College Dublin, Darius worked as a journalist, and has since published several short stories and poems online, and has worked on multiple long-form projects, as an active member on the Fiverr and Medium platforms. Darius hopes to extend his mission to others, and help them jot down their names and stories in such ways that would never be forgotten.
Canada
Premium
Samia M
Samia currently works at The Walrus, where she gets to edit magazine stories about everything from political protests and science explainers to personal essays. Before moving to Toronto, she lived in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories—a long way from Syria, her home country—where she helped edit Up Here magazine, cross-country skied on frozen lakes in the winter, and canoed in the summer. When she isn’t typing things, she spends her free time trying (and failing) to grow cucumbers, learning about fungi, and making hummus.
United Kingdom
Premium
Johnny A
Johnny is a highly experienced author and journalist who has written or co-written 17 published books under his own name. He has also ghostwritten for everyone from Prince Charles to a celebrity Thai chef. An ex-Times obituarist, he is equally at home capturing the essence of a person’s life and character in a few paragraphs or writing an 80,000 word biography. His specialities include popular history, food and sport, but people and their life stories are what really float his boat.
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
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
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
Senior
Crispin OT B
Being a writer is all Crispin ever wanted, and after two decades in the wrong profession, his wife convinced him to go full time. Now an award-winning novelist with his dark humour series <em>A Very English Necromancer</em>, Crispin has a near-perfect career. A ghostwriter of multiple published novels, and a copywriter with a successful business, Crispin is a diverse writer who thrives when there’s something to learn. Writing memoirs is part of that, feeding his passion for experiencing and understanding the world through others’ unique perspectives.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jennifer L
Jennifer is an author and environmental writer with a background in nature conservation. Throughout her varied career in magazine publishing, she has written for Vogue, The Week, Dazed, BBC, Wildlife Trusts, and RSPB to encourage people to get outdoors and explore nature in order to de-stress their lives. Her book The Wheel, on her year exploring Pagan practices and reconnecting with nature, will be published by September Publishing in October 2021. In June 2018, she won a Northern Writers’ Award for her children’s fiction, which looks at destigmatising mental health issues for a younger audience.
United Kingdom
Premium
David S
Born in Australia, David’s professional writing career has spanned 40 years, starting as a reporter/newsreader in Sydney, before moving to the UK for a stint of 20 years as a celebrity interviewer on the Sunday Express. He’s interviewed dozens of top TV stars such as Sir David Attenborough and Sir Kenneth Branagh, plus sporting icons including Sir Alex Ferguson. David has a BA in Communications from Charles Sturt University, and MA in Drama from London University. He’s also published a successful book, How To Succeed in Newspaper Journalism.
Netherlands
Senior
Annet M
Eens journalist, altijd journalist. Dat is het motto van Annet, die na een halve eeuw nog altijd niets liever doet dan schrijven. Als socioloog heeft ze een scherp afgestelde antenne voor maatschappelijke en persoonlijke problematiek. Als redacteur van de weekbladen HP, HP/DeTijd en het maandblad Psy schreef ze talloze reportages over incest, verslaving, psychiatrie, ongewilde kinderloosheid, kindermishandeling, dementie en aanverwante onderwerpen. De reportages wisselde ze af met portretterende interviews met klassieke musici van naam en faam. In 2019 voltooide ze -in opdracht- haar eerste levensverhaal en wist dat hier haar toekomst moest liggen. Reflecteren op het leven impliceert een spannende zoektocht die ze graag begeleidt.
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.
Netherlands
Senior
Kim S
Kim is kunsthistorica en letterkundige en schrijft voor de Historische Kring Breukelen en de Vechtstroom. Haar passies zijn reizen, lezen en schrijven. Ze joeg haar droom na en maakte met haar partner een reis van negen maanden door Zuidoost Afrika waar ze een boek over schreef. Niet lang daarna verhuisden ze naar Kenia, waar ze vier jaar woonden. Terug in Nederland is Kim begonnen om mensen te helpen hun levensverhaal op te schrijven.
United Kingdom
Junior
Cailean C
Cailean is a Kilkenny-based journalist who began his career in 2018 with Goldenplec and has since gone on to contribute articles to both national and international publications including District, The Irish Times, Gigwise, Clash and The Line of Best Fit. Cailean is also the editor-in-chief of Soul Doubt Magazine, which focuses on Irish music and Irish culture through the lens of the creative. He has also got an MA in Applied Psychology from University College Cork, with a thesis on cross-border congenital heart disease in Ireland.
United Kingdom
Damien P
As a professional writer and editor for 12 years, Damien’s clients have included CEOs, COOs, credentialed academics, and award-winning filmmakers. He also spent more than ten years producing scripts and novels for an independent film company based in Amman, Jordan. At the outset of his career, Damien taught European history, academic writing, and political science in the Far East. During recent years, Damien has switched to online writing, providing creators like HistoryMarch, the History Guy, and Vox Stoica with video scripts that have accumulated tens of millions of views.
United Kingdom
Senior
Robin T
Robin is a writer and author who has written about subjects ranging from conspiracy theories to global surveillance, oil markets to North Korean tourism. He’s lived and worked in Chicago, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi and Pyongyang, his most recent foray being Berlin in 2018 where he finished his debut novel, “Mr Whippy Goes to Schaumberg”, about ice-cream wars in Chicago. An erstwhile professional actor and freelance North Korea tour leader, he is currently in London working as an ambulance technician. When he can, he heads north to Newcastle to see his wife and dog.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rachel L.
Rachel has more than 30 years’ experience in writing and interviewing. After beginning her journalism career on a Sunday newspaper in Australia, she moved to the Daily Mirror in London as a staff feature writer, which saw her doing everything from shadowing doctors to interviewing Olympic gold medal ice-skaters. After writing for a range of magazines, from the Daily Telegraph to The Times, she left newspapers for glossy magazines – first as deputy editor of ELLE, then editor of ELLE Decoration. After living in France for ten years, she is now freelancing in the Dorset countryside, where she continues to contribute to magazines and national newspapers as well as to a local news website she launched with her husband. In addition to journalism, she has published a book, Art at Home: An Accessible Guide to Collecting and Curating Art in Your Home, and ghost-written a story about a World War Two evacuee. She loves discovering people’s real life stories which are so often unexpected and extraordinary.
United Kingdom
Senior
Steve M
Throughout his working life, Steve has written for governments, companies and trade associations. As a British diplomat in the first half of his career, he lived and worked in parts of Asia and Africa and throughout the Middle East. He then got a taste for helping companies in the Middle East like HSBC and the Qatar Financial Centre tell their stories and promote themselves. His freelance writing since returning back to the UK has included speeches, reports and his own reflections on a long and interesting life abroad. He is a keen choral singer and a regular, but sadly under-achieving, golfer.
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
Dettie G
Dettie, writing as DG Coutinho, is an award-winning author, spoken word performer, and lifelong defender of human rights. Her writing career took flight when she won the Bloody Scotland Harvill Secker Crime Writing Award in 2021, paving the way for her twisty, satirical thriller The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin, published in hardback in August 2024 and now out in paperback with Vintage. As a published novelist, ghostwriter, and curator, Dettie excels at crafting compelling narratives that blend imagination with lived experience. Beyond the page, she performs spoken word under the name DGC and proudly co-founded and MC’d Boisterous Ravens, a vibrant spoken word platform spotlighting Black, Brown, and Global Majority voices. In collaboration with NAZ Project London, she co-authored the children’s book Activists In Action: Prudence Mabele, celebrating the groundbreaking South African AIDS activist. Her creative work spans short stories, scriptwriting, and ongoing fiction projects, including her novel Prodigal Honey, longlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize in 2015. She is Proud of her South Asian Indian and West African heritage, she feels lucky that she is able to draw on both cultures to enrich her storytelling. When Dettie is not writing or performing, you’ll find her eating anything with cheese in it or on it, obsessing over Liverpool football club, or defending her title as a virulent coffee snob.
United Kingdom
Senior
Cathal C
Cathal has written articles on cultural and educational issues for a range of publications such as Irish America and Ireland’s Own over the past decade, including three books with The History Press. After completing his degree in English and Modern History at Queen’s University Belfast, Cathal worked as a genealogist for Irish World Heritage Organisation, interviewing clients and researching online records to trace their family history, leading to a successful weekly series in The Dungannon Observer. He is passionate about libraries, and campaigns to promote better awareness of Critical Literacy.
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
Emma M
Emma is an experienced ghostwriter and author of twelve high-profile non-fiction books. Born in Uganda, Emma grew up in London and Shropshire, and worked for nine years as a senior editor for Pan Macmillan Publishers. As a freelancer, she has edited and written a broad range of books, from autobiography and history to humour and lifestyle titles. She enjoys the interview process and delights in capturing people’s memories, stories and past adventures.
United Kingdom
Senior
Nicky P
Nicky is a best selling author, true crime buff, and has over 20 years experience working on B2B magazines. Working for professional member bodies such as the Federation of Small Businesses and Equity the Actors’ Union, Nicky got her degree in creative writing and had over 30 short stories featured in anthologies by publishers including Walker Books and Little Brown Books. She has 5 YA novellas published by Evernight Teen. In December 2020 her debut thriller, published by Harper Collins, became a Tesco bestseller.
United Kingdom
Senior
Saima L
Saima’s passion for journalism and psychology amalgamated to forge a career spanning 20 plus years as a freelance researcher, writer, therapist, psychologist and coach. She has a love for learning and a basketful of qualifications, right up to doctorate level. Saima is privileged to have interviewed thousands of people from across the globe, all with varied and colourful lives and no one story the same. She has stayed busy writing articles and working with journalists to produce magazine and newspaper content, focused on popular psychology articles.
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