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 or premium writer.
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Kelly D
Kelly keeps expecting to be told to get a “real” job. In the meantime, she’ll travel the world, sample cocktails, and experiment with skiing uphill, falconry, and race car driving. As a freelance journalist, she has done all of this for a variety of publications including The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, O: The Oprah Magazine, Glamour, and others. She is also the author of Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique, which earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. In addition to her career as a writer, she has been teaching yoga for more than ten years and owns Past Tense yoga studio in Washington, DC.
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Kate S
Kate is a third-generation librarian, historian, and novelist from Kansas City. She graduated from Vassar College with a BA in history and women’s studies and from the University of Iowa with master’s degrees in history and library science. After working in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress and the U.S. Senate, she moved to Tucson, where she is still a political junkie and fan of the Washington Nationals. She loves nothing more than uncovering and bringing to life an unknown, inspirational story.
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Karen D
Karen grew up in New York City with parents who read five newspapers a day, including The Daily Mirror where the tagline for Walter Winchell’s column was “8 million people, 8 million stories.” Like him, she believes everyone has a story to tell but they sometimes need help in telling it. She’s been writing people’s stories as a freelance journalist for women’s magazines, as an award-winning health columnist and as a ghostwriter for over 40 years. A skilled interviewer with a curiosity about people’s lives, she translates your stories into books.
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Kaitlin MK
As an editor, interviewer, and ghostwriter, Kaitlin enjoys working with clients to bring their voices and experiences to paper. She draws on decades of experience working with writers and storytellers from various backgrounds and levels of expertise and comfort with writing. She has taught writing in secondary schools and adult education programs, spanning environments including an incarceration facility, a DoDDs school in Japan, a GED and employment program for young mothers, and an afterschool program supporting youth in Washington, DC. In higher education she taught writing at American University, SUNY Buffalo, Union County College, and the University of Tampa. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Peauxdunque Review, Epiphany Magazine, Ocotillo Review, Odet Journal, Newfound Journal, Big Sky Weekly, and other publications. In fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, her writing has been recognized in contests including the Words and Music Writing Competition with The Peauxdunque Review, the International Writing Awards at the Center for Women Writers at Salem College, the Romeo Lemay Writing Award with Odet Journal, the Writer’s Digest Award in spiritual writing, and more.
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Judy G
Judy’s writing has appeared in many major media outlets, and her award-winning books include three humor titles and a memoir. She has ghostwritten non-fiction, including memoir, for The Michael Levin Company and for private clients. After earning an undergraduate degree in English from U.C. Berkeley and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, she spent the early years of her career writing in the healthcare field. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, and is an active Nana to her six young grandchildren. She adores dark chocolate, exquisite coffee, tastefully blingy jewelry, Iyengar yoga, and Netflix.
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Jonathan M
Jonathan is a Los Angeles-based author and producer. His work has appeared in LA Weekly, Newsday, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, The Jewish Journal, and SB Nation, where he writes regularly about baseball. He is also a playwright and screenwriter whose projects have included Lifetime’s Project Five, ABC’s Somewhere Between, and the critically-acclaimed theatrical production The People vs. Kastner, starring Bob Odenkirk, Paul McCrane, and Alan Rosenberg. He attended Bennington College and CCNY and holds a degree in English. Once upon a time, he sang opera at Lincoln Center, but these days he sticks to karaoke.
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Jo E
Writing has followed Jo from childhood journals in Dallas to writing competitions and school newspapers to student publications at the University of Texas at Austin and to her doctoral dissertation in clinical psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Although she tried to ignore the magnetic pull of writing by focusing on her clinical work with combat veterans, trauma survivors, and nursing home residents, along with teaching yoga, her desire to write always emerged. She currently works as a freelance proofreader and copy editor with one soon-to-be published short story and more to come.
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Jill S
Jill is the award-winning author of the Broadway musical A Tale of Two Cities (Outer Critics Circle nominee for Best Musical) and It Happened in Key West. She has collaborated with Pulitzer, Oscar, Tony, and Grammy Award winners and nominees. She’s written the books of three musicals, a screenplay, study guides, articles, and is currently ghostwriting the memoir of a Disney park emcee. She earned her journalism degree from Ohio University and worked thirteen years in programming at Showtime. She believes you don’t need to be famous to be fascinating and deserving of having your story told.
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Jessica D
Jessica is a writer and mom, among other things. After studying fine art and animation in college, she worked as an award-winning, touring comedian-musician. She’s regularly published in countless notable national publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and more. Every now and then, she hops back on stage. She is also an educator who teaches people of all ages to sing, write (whether it be songs or satire), and play ukulele and guitar. She lives in New York City with one husband, one toddler and one cat.
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Jennifer Y
Jennifer is a writer, editor, and historian who grew up on an island in the Pacific Northwest and now lives on the slightly larger island of Manhattan. She is the former Director of Education for the YIVO Institute, and studied history at the graduate level at NYU. She holds a Master’s in Museum Education and has worked at the New York Historical Society and the Tenement Museum. Her writing has appeared in the Jerusalem Post and Time.com, among other publications. In her spare time, she likes to feed the birds on her fire escape.
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Jennifer K
With two masters’ degrees in creative and non-fiction writing and more than a decade of experience as a features writer and editor, Jennifer finds herself at home telling other people’s stories. Her work has won numerous national news awards and has appeared in Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Jackson Hole News & Guide, Cody Enterprise, High Plains Sentinel, Casper Tribune, Gillette Enterprise, Women in the Outdoors, Montana Living, and others. Currently, she is the managing editor for Nebraska Life magazine and loves history, traveling, and meeting new people.
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Jason S
Jason is a versatile writer with credits at New York Magazine, the New York Times, Narratively, and many other places. He leads content strategy for nonprofits, teaches a class on Flash Nonfiction, most recently with Catapult, and was recruited as part of Medium's Nonfiction Authors program. He is also helping bring back a heritage adventure magazine Hemingway wrote for, a decade-long effort covered by the New Yorker and Fast Company. Jason has worked for several years as one of Story Terrace’s Premium writers, collaborating on over 14 books with clients ranging from CEOs and TV executives to school superintendents and magicians, in addition to others privately, including a celebrity memoir. As an editor and writing coach, his clients have included best-selling authors, debut authors, entrepreneurs, and Netflix staff writers. Jason’s own acclaimed book of essays, No One You Know, was published in 2021 by Outpost19, a small press in San Francisco. He grew up in New York City and now lives in Oakland with his family. Jason graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, including a year studying Creative Writing at Oxford. “I savor the work of helping a book become the best version of itself before it emerges into the world,” he told us.
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Jann R
Jann began her career producing and writing television commercials, earning over fifteen Regional Addy Awards. She came to L.A. to pursue writing and producing. Her first job was as personal assistant and editor to best-selling author, Harold Robbins in 1982. Jann continued to edit and develop Harold’s many unfinished manuscripts after he passed. Jann co-authored the non-fiction novel, Hope and Honor, and was awarded the prestigious William Colby Award for Best Book of 2005. In 2008, Harold & Me was published by Forge Books and is today’s most accurate picture of the world-famous author and the love of his life. She also co-authored Malpractice, a Medical Fiction thriller.
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Janis F C
Janis didn’t set out to be a writer. When she was five, she announced to anyone who would listen that she was an actress. But life has a funny way of tossing changes your way. While studying for her master’s degree in theater, Janis landed a job in the copy department of a controversial national magazine (now defunct). She discovered her love of words, and she has never looked back. Since then, she has spent her career writing and helping authors tell their stories. She’d love the chance to tell yours!
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Jamie R
Jamie’s writing career first took off in the third grade when her family moved across the country, and she became an excellent pen pal to the friends she left behind. Later, she became a news producer for MSNBC and Yahoo and currently ghostwrites speeches, blog posts, magazine articles, and just about anything else for executives at Fortune 500 companies and media personalities. She graduated from Barnard College and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. She is currently working on her own memoir about eating but always prefers working on someone else’s story.
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James M
James has been asking questions and writing stories ever since he could read. Over the decades since, his writing skills and inquisitive passion for knowledge have grown. Through jobs in law, writing, and teaching, he has developed a deep appreciation of the written word, written well. Essentially, he loves to share fascinating stories with all sorts of audiences, whether online or in print, virtually or live. Wherever there are people, there are adventures, and James aims to tell them well.
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Jacqueline C
Jackie thinks her true talent might be singing, but her husband suggests she save that gift for the family. She is a writer in the Washington, DC area with clients including the Yale University Press and Cavendish Square Publishing. She had the privilege of working with Dr. Jane Goodall for over ten years as a writer and editor at the Jane Goodall Institute and more recently enjoyed five years as a writer at the National Science Foundation. Now a freelancer, she recently published a book called Martin Luther King Jr.: Fulfilling a Dream.
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Jackson K
Jackson often wears running sneakers because he’s always tripping over history. The author of the Revolutionary War biography Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer, Jackson’s written about ghost towns, lost states, and forgotten heroes for Atlas Obscura, the Hartford Courant, National Geographic News, and others. He also likes to write fiction set in historical times. When he’s not writing or running, Jackson paddles the waters of Long Island Sound with a little white dog on the front of his board.
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Ira B
Ira started his first writing gig days after graduating high school, launching a movie review column in his small-town newspaper. Since then he’s written in just about every capacity imaginable, from features in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Time Out Chicago, and Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine to fiction in outlets like Pseudopod, No Sleep, and Hypertext to business copy for major retailers. He earned an English degree at the University of Minnesota and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. He lives and works in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Henry D
Henry was born and raised in Rancho Cucamonga, California into a family of engineers and entrepreneurs. Henry is a writer, speaker, story strategist, professional swing dancer, tournament chess player, improv comedian, and, most importantly, a soon-to-be husband. He believes that legacy is more important than destiny and loves to help individuals leave their own legacy for their loved ones. He has worked as a freelance writer, editor, and writing consultant, helping small business owners tell their stories. He loves to use his diverse life experience to connect with others.
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