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.
Netherlands
Senior
Persis B
Persis Bekkering (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 States
Senior
Erin H
Erin wrote her first “novel” in sixth grade—a story of three siblings who became orphans. The 30-page Word document now lives in a drawer of her desk, and though she has no intention of ever letting anyone else read them, the pages serve as a reminder of her roots as a storyteller. Erin went on to study journalism and now works as a freelance writer with bylines in the Atlantic and Huffington Post. Erin is drawn to stories because they are powerful forces of human connection and agents for change.
United States
Senior
Erica L
Erica began writing professionally after the loss of her young son in a swimming pool accident in 2010. Her writing showcases the power of humor, resilience, and honesty and has appeared in Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, and Today Show Parenting Team. In 2018, she was chosen by Good Housekeeping Magazine to be included in their annual “50 at 50 Women” for the inspirational work she’s done through her blog Atop The Ferris Wheel. She listens with compassion and is a sponge for the beauty of human stories.
United States
Senior
Eric W
With more than a decade of experience as a writer, editor, teacher, and creativity coach, Eric Sheridan Wyatt has helped hundreds of people tell their stories. Eric has a keen eye for significant detail, a knack for capturing narrative voice, and an empathetic-yet-probing style, and he knows there is an engaging story waiting to be uncovered in every life. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Queens University of Charlotte, and his fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies.
United States
Senior
Eric J S
After five higher degrees, Eric published the book, B.K.S. Iyengar and the Making of Modern Yoga, and dozens of articles for Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Mantra Yoga & Health—and other wellness magazines. He’s been hired to ghostwrite texts on artificial intelligence, architecture, crime, medicine, professorship, government, high-seas fishing, and horse-trading. A gifted organizer of facts, Eric is a versatile storyteller, whose interests range through history, science, philosophy, religion, politics, wellness, biography, meditation, and art.
United States
Senior
Emma C B
As a freelance writer and children’s book author for more than fifteen years, Emma believes that the first step to good storytelling is good listening. With an MA in Composition-Rhetoric from Miami University, Emma has published over 80 fiction and non-fiction books on a wide variety of subjects, including Jewish-American culture and history, World War II experiences, Appalachian culture, and nature and animals. An avid equestrian, Emma lives in Cincinnati, Ohio where she rides horses, walks in the woods, and runs after her three little boys.
United States
Senior
Emily B
Working as a journalist for over six years, Emily has grown to learn that it’s the little details about a person that makes them who they are. Whether it’s an oncologist who likes to brighten her patients’ days by wearing glittery eyeshadow and colorful fingernails or a car buff who searched Craigslist for decades before he finally found his dad’s lost ’77 Corvette, everybody has a story—or several stories—to tell. And telling yours would be both an honor and a treat.
United States
Senior
Elyse K
Elyse Kallen is a creative writer, tour guide, amateur genealogist, and collector of an unhealthy number of hobbies. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, her career path has meandered through marketing and communications, politics, education policy, and health care, among other fields. When she’s not telling others’ stories or her own, you can find her getting lost in foreign cities, wandering around museums, writing plays and short stories, and shedding light on overlooked and offbeat history through her blog.
United States
Senior
Elizabeth T
Elizabeth is a journalist, storyteller and creative producer. She has seven-plus years of professional writing experience and recently helped produce Netflix documentary series “The Confession Killer”. She’s a born-and-bred Buckeye and the oldest of six in a big, fat Greek family. She pursued a degree in journalism (with Spanish, business and media production minors) at The Ohio State University. Her greatest passion is connecting with her subjects and sharing their stories. You can find her cooking up a storm, hiking around Southern California or on the phone with her Yiayia.
United States
Premium
Elisa U
An award-winning writer who has reviewed restaurants, chased fires, profiled politicians, and quizzed celebrities, Elisa delights in writing portraits of everyday life the most. Formerly the food critic and dining columnist for The (Bergen) Record (northjersey.com) and a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, she is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Elisa grew up in the Los Angeles area and now lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband and their two young, inquisitive sons.
United States
Senior
Doug R
With two decades of journalism experience, Doug has told the stories of everyone from governors to Olympic athletes to Amish farmers to a dentist who loaned out his office as a location for a low-budget zombie movie. After writing for various publications in his native Kentucky and throughout the Midwest, Doug earned a master’s in English (creative nonfiction). As a writing tutor in Chicago, he helped students tell their stories and wrote features for city and suburban websites. Now in L.A., he continues to freelance as a writer and script reader-analyst.
United States
Senior
Diana W
Diana has always been passionate about writing as a way of connecting people, places, and ideas. A recent graduate from the University of Montana School of Law, Diana received her Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Montana State University – Billings. While in school, she worked as a bartender for a number of years and enjoyed writing stories about the patrons and what she imagined their lives outside of the bar to be. In her free time, Diana enjoys climbing, skiing, cycling, and trail running with her bloodhound, Ginger.
United States
Senior
Devin F
Originally from Connecticut, Devin has been in love with creativity and storytelling since childhood. You could find her deep in the woods building a secret fort, organizing a three-act play, or choreographing a dance number to perform for the neighborhood! After studying filmmaking in Boston and the Czech Republic, she worked in NYC on feature films & TV shows for over a decade. Sensitive to the subtle details of relationships, history, and culture, Devin has learned to channel her empathetic observations into screenplays, poems, short stories, and her first novel.
United States
Senior
Debi S
For years, Debi has been writing stories. Stories about people, stories about animals, and stories about events. After graduating from Arizona State University, she began professionally ghostwriting books, including one whose author was featured on 20/20 Broadcast News. Debi has interviewed and written for famous people such as Senator Barry Goldwater, NFL player Anquan Boldin, and champion race car driver Tom Sneva, learning life’s lessons from each. What she enjoys most, though, is listening and writing stories that reveal people’s personality and the experiences that truly make them unique.
United States
Senior
Dawn-Michelle B
Dawn-Michelle is an award-winning writer who loves connecting with people from all walks of life and all ages. Originally from Southern Illinois, she’s lived in France, Italy, Lebanon, Egypt, and Belgium, and travelled extensively through Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—sometimes on foot! She’s taught creative writing in universities in various countries and edited literary and main-stream magazines. Her publications include books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and communications, and she’s written extensively about art, archeology, and design. In her free time, she hikes in the Mojave, looking for cool rocks.
United States
Senior
Dara P
Dara is a writer, editor, and content strategist with a passion for social justice, parenting, feminism, entrepreneurship, and wellness. She has over a decade of experience in print and digital journalism and has held senior editorial management positions at start-ups and big corporations like Disney, Conde Nast, and Meredith Corp. Additionally, she’s written for Real Simple, Ladies’ Home Journal, Huffington Post, and More magazine, among others. Dara believes that reality TV is real, that candy is a food group, and that writing is fun.
United States
Senior
Dani B
Dani began teaching community college memoir writing classes in 2013; her students appreciate her equal love of humorous and dark writing. After a brief stint working with homeless veterans, Dani has worked as a freelance and staff writer at various regional and national publications, including McSweeney’s, Yes! Magazine, KQED, Ms. Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Earth Island Journal, HipMama Magazine, along with many other publications. She is working on an anthology with PM Press about women, bodies, love, & anger. In addition to teaching and writing, she is currently studying trauma-informed yoga.
United States
Senior
Dan B
Dan is the ghostwriter or co-author of more than 50 published works including projects for the For Dummies guides and the Streetwise Guide To… series. He has also written autobiographies and how-to projects and works on business-related topics. He is author of five Western novels, three mysteries, a political thriller, and two short story collections. His nonfiction work includes two books on psychic detecting and a guide to pendulum dowsing. He contributes regularly to legal and business periodicals.
United States
Senior
Cynthia H
Cynthia has an arts degree from UBC and has taken a variety of writing and editing courses from Langara and SFU. She has written about Vikings in Orkney, mermaids in Korea, hummingbirds, foxes, her mother’s emigration from Paraguay to Canada in 1952, and more. When not capturing stories, she practices nalbinden (Viking knitting, which is knot knitting), calligraphy, and the violin. She frequently visits Van Dusen Gardens where she takes photographs of flowers and, if she’s quick enough, of the bees and hummingbirds that visit them.
United States
Senior
Cristina M G
A professional journalist for 23 years, Cristina has interviewed celebrity sensations like Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz, and Vivienne Westwood. At 19, she started her career as a reporter for Periódico El Norte's Sunday magazine, where she organized photo shoots and interviews with veterinarians, therapists, celebrities, designers, architects, and politicians. Now, Cristina focuses on her blog and helps companies and people tell their stories through websites, digital media and books.
United States
Senior
Cora P
As a bilingual teacher and ethnomusicologist, Cora resides with her husband and daughter in the border region of South Texas where she is currently obsessed with perfecting the art of making gluten-free tortillas. From interviewing generations of conjunto musicians to writing about the impact of fitness instructors in her local community, Cora has a knack for connecting with all cultures and ages to draw out their stories. Her writing reflects the passionate belief that each person has unique abilities to influence their world.
United States
Senior
Clay C
Clay has spent the last 30 years roaming the Texas backroads and exploring the back pages of local and state history as a reporter, feature writer, and columnist. He’s published three collections of his history columns, a history of baseball in Texas, and a memoir. His work has appeared in magazines including Acres USA, Field & Stream, Progressive Farmer, Texas Golfer, Texas Co-op Power, Texas Highways, and others with and without the word “Texas” as part of the name. He lives and writes just outside of Walburg, Texas.
United States
Senior
Chris T
For Chris, writing comes naturally. He wrote his first short story at age fifteen called The Bone Collector, which had the great fortune of being published. While he loves fiction, he finds great enjoyment in telling the real-life stories of other people, whether in addiction recovery magazines like The Fix or profiles on restaurants and clubs for lifestyle publications. He studied English at the University of Tennessee.
United States
Senior
Christopher C
Christopher has 20 years of experience as a professional writer and a knack for telling the extraordinary stories of ordinary people. As a staff and senior writer for newspapers in Florida, he covered every beat under the sun. From horse racing to homelessness, his stories have appeared in The New York Times, Associated Press, and more. Christopher has worked as a ghost writer for trade industry executives and a website covering retail and technology. Christopher earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg. He enjoys music, the outdoors and playing front yard wiffle ball with his son.
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