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.
United States
Senior
Anne C
Anne has been writing ever since she can remember and taking it seriously since the 1980s — as a street poet reading in coffee shops and bars, as an editor for a brilliant social psychologist whose first language was German, and then as a community journalist and independent freelancer covering an infinity of subjects with skill, grace and infinite curiosity. Her early conflict resolution training honed superb listening skills and an ability to see all sides of every story; her gift for language makes those stories sing.
United States
Junior
Anne G
Anne is a competitive swimmer, trail adventurer, dog lover, and a mom who works as the training manager at a nonprofit that provides services to youths who have experienced trauma. To earn her doctorate in adult education from Penn State University, she studied the learning and identity development that takes place when sportswomen share and reflect on their sports narratives. Anne was born, raised, and still lives in central Pennsylvania, but loved traveling while earning her master’s degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
United States
Junior
Joseph U
Joseph is an author, blogger, and ghostwriter. In 2013, he took the leap into self-publishing and taught himself to wear all most of the hats including editing, formatting, and cover design. He’s written everything from manual test scripts as a software tester to book synopses as a freelance ghostwriter. Through his words he’s able to break down complex processes or create vivid worlds and characters that tug at your heartstrings. He now works as a freelance ghostwriter and is working on his newest coming-of-age historical fiction novel, Roman Identity.
United States
Senior
Tara D
Tara is a writer, editor, and educator, who spends her free time reading poetry and baking galettes. After receiving an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College, she joined the faculty of the School of the New York Times. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and she is currently at work on her first novel. She agrees wholeheartedly with Joan Didion’s assertion that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. She’s excited to help you tell yours.
United States
Senior
Sandy V
A former award-winning journalist, Sandy makes her living as a freelance writer. She has a broad background which spans newspaper writing, book writing, editing, and public relations. She’s happy to sit at her home office on the shores of Lake Erie, turning the thoughts and ideas of others into words that can transform lives. When she is not at her laptop, you will find her at Cleveland area gyms working as a certified personal trainer, mostly with Baby Boomers, helping them become more empowered physically, spiritually, and mentally.
United States
Senior
Sandra H
Sandra is a professional editor, writer, and playwright who loves telling people’s stories. Publishing credits include The Spokesman-Review, Journal of Business, Glass International, Inland NW Homes & Lifestyles, and various literary magazines. Her plays have been performed across the U.S. and internationally. She holds an M.F.A. in theatre/playwriting from the University of Idaho and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Eastern Washington University. In her spare time, Hosking enjoys writing poetry, hiking, photography, traveling, and working jigsaw puzzles.
United States
Senior
Linda O
Linda is an author of books for children and teens who loves reaching into the wonders of childhood in order to mine and craft stories. She’s published more than 30 books, including One Amazing Elephant, a middle-grade novel published by HarperCollins. Linda is also a journalist who loves to ask questions and to listen, as well as a songwriter, poet, and playwright. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College, and she teaches creative writing both nationally and internationally.
United States
Senior
Karl H
Karl is a writer and editor hailing from South Florida by way of Haiti. Karl discovered his passion for words, prose, and storytelling at an early age. Whether it was writing episodes of his favorite cartoons as a small child or dabbling in poetry as a teen, content creation and expression has always been a part of his life. For the better part of the past dozen years, he’s written and edited for a diverse set of outlets including Sports Illustrated, The Tampa Tribune, The Maritime Executive, and Norwegian Cruise Line.
United States
Senior
Jamar M
Jamar likes to think of himself as a country boy with a city attitude. Growing up, writing was all Jamar wanted to do and now he feels that he’s living his dream. He’s a journalist and ghostwriter, and his work has been featured in USA Today. When he’s not writing, Jamar spends his time listening to good music, watching good movies, or listening to the stories of good people. The latter is his favorite because he’s an avid believer in the saying, “Everyone has a story to tell.”
United States
Senior
Erin R M
Erin Rae Miller co-wrote a musical that toured nationally for eighteen months, and has had five plays produced in Los Angeles to sold-out audiences. She wrote a weekly relationship advice column for several years for both the Chicago and Los Angeles Examiner, and many of her articles trended number one on the paper’s website. She also has a screenplay that was a finalist in the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowship, and her first book was a finalist in the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
United States
Senior
Dan C
If Dan had to summarize his sixteen years as a professional writer in only three words, he’d quickly respond, “Getting the story.” A versatile writer and skillful interviewer, Dan spent nearly a decade in newspapers covering everything from crime to sports to everyday life in suburban Chicago. Since 2010, he’s developed his own business writing for niche magazines and a variety of media outlets and developed written and multimedia content for businesses and organizations. Dan has also co-authored two books on the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field.
United States
Senior
Bill A
Bill is a writer and an artist, a teacher and student. He trained as a poet, and loves the stories that make up the world. Bill started writing when he was young. As he grew older, he found a certain joy in moving people to see things they might have missed the first time. Bill works for Forest Grove School District as a Skills Trainer in a Special Education program. He spends a lot of time working with his students, teaching and learning alternate methods of communication.
United States
Senior
Wendy S
Always excited about sharing the next story, Wendy’s background includes reporting for several papers in the Star Newspaper Group of Texas, self-owned teaching and grant writing at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and freelance writing and ghostwriting. She has a Master’s degree in English with distinction in literature, business/technical writing, and rhetoric. Wendy’s special talent is telling a complicated story simply, a talent she uses to create intriguing manuscripts, help others discover their authentic voice, and share their ideas with the world.
United States
Senior
Wanda A
Wanda discovered words at the same time she learned to walk. In Mrs. Glover’s second grade class she wrote her first story using that week’s spelling words. Her writing and reading have been her refuge and friends throughout her life. She is an adjunct professor for Life Writing at Pensacola State College, an Erma Bombeck award winning humor writer, the author of eight books, published in a variety of on-line papers, and a voracious reader of memoirs. She loves stories of human triumph.
United States
Senior
Virginia K
An Alabama native, Virginia has been writing since the age of five, when she learned to create stories with her grandfather on his typewriter. After various roles at magazines, newspapers, and publishing houses, she wrote her memoir about childhood summers spent on Mobile Bay. In her work at Amazon’s independent publishing company, CreateSpace, she collaborated with authors to create clean manuscripts and appealing marketing copy. She is now a full-time mom, a freelance writer and the founder of a positive online platform for women to pursue their purpose and promote their passions.
United States
Senior
Vanessa P
Vanessa believes storytelling is a way of making sense of the world around us, and speaking fluent English and Spanish is a superpower that allows her to communicate in two very different ways. She has over fifteen years of experience as a bilingual writer, editor, and translator, and has written hundreds of articles on a variety of topics that range from education, women’s and children’s health, immigration to celebrity profiles and entertainment/lifestyle features. She now currently resides in Long Island with her husband and two children.
United States
Senior
Tracie M
Tracie is the Washington bureau chief for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a ghostwriter specializing in memoir and historical biography. She has served as education writer for the Republican-American in Waterbury, CT, assistant city editor of the Springfield News-Sun in Ohio, education and municipal government reporter for The Herald in New Britain, CT, and executive director of the Journalism Association of Ohio Schools. Tracie has a bachelor’s degree in English from Central Connecticut State University and a master’s degree in journalism from The Ohio State University.
United States
Senior
Tim H
A professional writer for twenty years, Tim Hull is the author of several travel guidebooks about the Southwest, where he’s been a staff reporter for a business journal, a community newspaper, and a legal news website. As a freelancer, he’s written articles and reviews for various publications and websites, and published fiction in literary journals. He often carries a novel under one arm and a book about history or anthropology under the other, though typically not while hiking in the Grand Canyon or along the rocky desert trails near his home in Tucson.
United States
Senior
Tara L P
Tara worked as a professional actor for over fifteen years, appearing on stages across the U.S. and Bermuda as well as doing cartoon voiceovers and commercials. As an author, she works in a variety of genres including health, marketing, travel, creative non-fiction, and fiction. Her current fiction projects include a comic book series called Moonshine Dust as well as short stories for Kindle. After living in Chicago, Miami, and Manhattan, she now resides in her hometown of Chattanooga where she loves to hula-hoop dance, hang with her pets, and make yummy messes in the kitchen.
United States
Senior
Tara C
Tara is the author of the middle grade novels Eden’s Wish and Eden’s Escape, published by Disney-Hyperion. She grew up in Tennessee and studied Cinematic Arts at USC in Los Angeles, California. While working in Hollywood, she realized her childhood dream of writing books had never gone away, so she finally decided to pursue it. She moved to Sydney, Australia and earned an MA in Creative Writing at Macquarie University. She now lives with her husband between New York City and their farm in the northern Catskills, where they raise grass-fed cows and pastured chickens.
United States
Senior
Susan S
Susan is a freelance writer with eight years’ experience who endeavors to get to the heart of the story for clients, publications, and online sites. Her work has appeared on the national website, Divine Caroline, that shares affiliation with Better Homes and Gardens and SHAPE magazine. She’s a contributing writer to local and regional publications and writes for her own blog, The Four o’clock Martini. Susan finds hearing and capturing stories a great privilege. She lives in Northern California, is the mother of two grown daughters and one sweet dog.
United States
Senior
Susan M W
The best Christmas gift Susan recieved was a printing press when she was ten years old. She began writing “professionally” when she edited her 5th-grade newsletter. After a stint as a newspaper reporter and public relations executive for private schools and colleges, Susan wrote about health, mental health, and homelessness for the federal government for nearly 30 years. She’s happy to say that did not stifle her creativity one bit! Her goal, going forward, is to help people tell their stories. She writes blog posts and speeches and edits books.
United States
Senior
Susan M
Susan has been a journalist most of her adult life for newspapers and magazines, including a few pieces for USA Today and the Huffington Post. She’s also written two social studies books. The stories she likes to write best, however, are stories about people. They may be stories told for family archives, stories that will inspire others, or stories that help someone come to terms with life events. To be entrusted with the telling of someone’s story is both an honor and a privilege.
United States
Senior
Summer P
Summer holds a BA in Chinese from Tsing Hua University and an MA in World Cultures and Literatures, Chinese from the University of Houston. Her published books in translation include: Think and Grow Rich, Being Logical and Feel the Fear but Do It Anyway. This hopeless gourmet also doubles as a professional wordsmith and a creative Chinese teacher. It’s marvelous how cooking and writing go hand-in-hand; both are creative endeavors that are personal, unique, and when done properly, can be quite nourishing to the body and the mind.
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