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
Ann F
Ann has been telling personal stories for as long as she can remember. A lifelong artist, she has exhibited her work in museums and galleries since 1993, when she finished an MFA in art and music at CalArts. She published her first book, “Dancing with the Midwives” (Black Dragonfly Books) in 2011, and has written for magazines and published her art in various journals. Currently working on a novel, Ann divides her free time between teaching art at the Armory in Pasadena, teaching meditation, and grief counseling.
United States
Senior
Amy M
I learn through listening. All life has rhythm and movement, and through those elements I craft stories and poems that align with the harmonies of nature within and around us. A student of herbal medicine and a graduate of Middlebury College with a degree in Creative Writing, I have been awarded writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the United Plant Savers’ Goldenseal Sanctuary. I am a performance poet and storyteller and have recently completed a memoir that crosses boundaries of poetry and prose.
United States
Senior
Amanda Z
Amanda is a self-proclaimed word nerd. Her publication list includes a little something for everyone, including six books for children and two for adults. As a writer her strongest skills are keen observation, clear communication, impressive imagination, and a drive to finish what she starts—thirteen years of teaching experience along with BS and Masters Degrees in Education come in handy. When she’s not hanging out in her writing world, she is living a family-style-life in the great state of Wisconsin (Go Bucky!) with her husband and kids.
United States
Senior
Allison B
Allison is an editor and writer who enjoys music, art, literature, food, and talking with strangers. Allison graduated as salutatorian of Pepperdine University with her BA in English Literature and minor in Humanities. She then earned her TEFL certificate in Barcelona and traveled extensively around Europe. She has worked in various editing-related capacities at several companies, including Sage Publications, Penguin Random House, John Wiley & Sons, Cydcor, and FP Horak.
United States
Senior
Alissa F
Alissa is a freelance writer and ESL teacher based on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Knowing that the chief attribute of a great storyteller is having great stories to tell, she’s done stints in the arid, sun baked desert of Arizona, a sea turtle conservation on a wild jungle beach in Costa Rica, the rugged and unapologetic beauty of the Pacific Northwest, the heavily spiced smogginess of Thailand and finally the vast and stark grandeur of America’s last frontier, Alaska. Today she divides her time between Alaska and Southeast Asia. Tomorrow…to be determined.
United States
Senior
Adam R
Adam began ghostwriting in 2009 and, in 2014, left his day job to pursue ghostwriting and freelance writing full-time. With a background in fiction writing (he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh and has published more than two dozen short stories), he specializes in capturing his clients’ unique voices and turning their experiences into vivid scenes that put the reader in the middle of the action. In his free time he enjoys reading, writing, and spending time with his two young daughters.
Canada
Senior
A.J. L
A.J. Levin is a freelance writer and genealogist whose biographies and obituaries have appeared in The Globe & Mail and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is also a former book reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press. He is passionate about family history, writing, and the way both traditional research and genetics can illuminate our ancestry. In his spare time, he writes poetry, studies language, and plays several musical instruments.
United States
Premium
William D
As a longtime senior writer at The Ring magazine, William covered some of the world’s most famous athletes and helped them tell their stories. He did the same thing at ESPN.com and HBO.com, profiling athletes from around the world and from different eras. He wrote a critically-acclaimed biography of 1940s boxing champion Ezzard Charles and co-wrote an instructional book with legendary boxing champion Joe Frazier. His work has appeared in Pacific Standard magazine, The Morning News, The Millions and more. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of a quarterly magazine named Ringside Seat.
United States
Premium
Wendy R
Wendy was born with a magic crayon in her wee left hand. She’s found a niche, writing for CEOs in the SF Bay startup scene in publications like FastCompany, TechCrunch, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. When she’s not ghostwriting for fascinating folks with wonderful stories to tell, she can be found singing with her kids or sewing costumes for tiny stop-motion puppets.
United States
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Wendy C
Although Wendy loved working as a medical-surgical nurse for nearly two decades, she also loved writing, and she wanted to use her life experience and nursing background to help reach a wider audience. So, she published the first of several self-help books and enjoyed this process so much that she decided to change careers! In 2014, Wendy moved to Missoula, Montana to be closer to all of the outdoor activities she loves, especially hiking. Missoula is a small city with a vibrant music scene, four distinct seasons, and an enthusiastic and welcoming writing community.
United States
Premium
Wally S
Wally is a freelance writer and has recently contributed content for a book regarding the socioeconomics of retirement, published by MassMutual, entitled Precisely. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in All Roads Lead to Home, The American Book Review, Connecticut River Review, The New Haven Advocate, and Small Press Review. Considered a leading nature poet, his books include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love, Invocation, and, as co-author with David Breeden and Steven Schroeder, The Daodejing: A New Interpretation.
Canada
Premium
Vicky C
A native of San Francisco, Vicky is an experienced storyteller with a past life as an executive in the entertainment industry. She worked on TV movies as Vice President of Movies at a company owned by HBO. World traveler, screenwriter, and content marketing professional, Vicky believes everyone has an interesting story to tell.
United States
Premium
Valerie B
Valerie is the author of the award-winning Circle of Nine series, stories inspired by Celtic mythology and Irish legend. The UK Writers Hub has honored her blog as one of the top 50 of 2018. When she’s not writing, she’s wrangling her overgrown garden, traveling the world, researching genealogy, and reading everything she can find. She holds journalism and political science degrees from the University of Wisconsin, and lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband and occasionally a grown child or two. She passionately believes that everyone has a story to tell and would be honored to help you tell yours.
United States
Premium
Tyler W
A writer and journalist living in Brooklyn. Tyler’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The Irish Independent, The Brooklyn Magazine, and Vice. Her first book, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run, is forthcoming from Macmillan in April 2018. It tells the story of her childhood growing up as the daughter of a federal fugitive. Her fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, and she is Deputy Editor of literary journal The Wrong Quarterly. She also teaches journalism and creative writing at Manhattanville College.
United States
Premium
Tony H
Tony was an award-winning news and features writer for Bay Area News Group for more than 20 years. He was the features columnist of the Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune, emphasizing his adventures with his four daughters and their many dogs, cats, and rodents. Before journalism, Tony tried being a rock star in Hollywood, which he’ll one day chronicle once his kids can understand why people used to dress like that. Now freelancing for magazines and websites, he believes great personal stories are the key to great writing.
United States
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Tony D
Tony DuShane is an author and the award-winning screenwriter of “Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk.” First a novel also penned by Tony and published by Soft Skull Press, the feature film was directed by Eric Stoltz and released on Amazon Prime in 2019. Tony teaches novel and screenwriting at UCLA Extension. He has written features for Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, and other outlets.
United States
Premium
Todd S
Todd’s experience as a screenwriter, biographer and attorney helps him create thoroughly researched, visually entertaining and emotionally compelling narratives. He has written for Warner Bros., Lionsgate, ABC/Disney, USA, SyFy, Lifetime and BET. He has also ghostwritten many personal biographies. Todd believes that you don’t have to be famous to make history; everyone has a life story worthy of sharing. A graduate of University of Michigan (B.A. in History) and Southwestern University School of Law, Todd lives in Studio City with his wife, three children and dog.
United States
Premium
Steven F
Steven has worked as an editor and a writer for four decades—first in New York City for AVENUE, Home Video, and the parodies The Post New York Post and Off the Wall Street Journal II; for many years at Whittle Communications in Knoxville, Tennessee; and as CEO of A3 Creative Group, an education-focused communications and marketing company. He was, for five years, the editor-in-chief of Cityview, Knoxville’s city magazine. He is also a lecturer at the University of Tennessee teaching the Magazine Industry Workshop.
United States
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Steve J
Steve honed his writing skills at Colorado State University and channeled that experience into a portfolio of engaging projects from children’s books and where-to to climate change and inspirational memoirs. Blending a genuine voice with a literary wallop, he deftly navigates the intricacies of a book’s publishing orbit. Steve brings big-picture editing talents and natural finesse to orchestrate projects to their very best, complemented with a generations-proud family history and soul-deep appreciation of where he comes from.
United States
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Stephen C
Stephen is a freelance writer, storyteller, ghostwriter, and collaborator. He has collaborated on or ghostwritten nearly a dozen books with people from all over the sports and entertainment industry, including NFL quarterbacks, Hall of Fame coaches, and media personalities. His first book in his own voice, Where the Colors Blend, was released in November 2018. He loves working alongside genuine, authentic people and helping them share their stories and ideas in a compelling way. He is a coffee snob and craft beer enthusiast. His dog, Bailee, keeps him sane.
United States
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Serginho R
Serginho is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Oakland, California. His work has been published by Voice of America, One.org, AJ+, Al Jazeera America, The Africa Report, Africa is a Country, Radio France International, and Amnesty International. He has traveled to and reported from over a dozen African and European countries. In 2012 he obtained an MPhil. in African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Serginho is currently Dean’s Merit Fellow in the class of ’18 at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
United States
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Serena S
Now an award-winning journalist, Serena’s career did not start in news or stories. It started as a social worker with homeless teenagers in her hometown of Sydney, Australia. During that time she learned three things: listen, listen, and listen. It is a lesson that served her well when she transitioned into journalism with a BA in Media. After a decade in journalism, Serena has written for publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC, covering subjects from a rare Fijian flower to the advantages of surfing in New York’s winter.
United States
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Scott L C
Best-selling author, Scott La Counte, has had a 15+ year career in publishing spanning multiple genres (including biography, humor, spirituality, young adult, and technical writing). Writing under the pen name Scott Douglas, his first book Quiet, Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian was a LA Times Discovery and Chicago Tribune Editors Choice selection. Scott has been a librarian for over 20 years and has a Master’s in Library and Information Science (in addition to a dual-BA in English Literature and Comparative Religion). He also teaches writing for the Gotham Writers Workshop.
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.
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