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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Liz T
In her early twenties, Liz wrote her master’s thesis in religion on the healing power of Santeria. She spent three years as a music editor and has written about art, music, food, and health for publications like The Atlantic, Vice, Rolling Stone, and the Miami New Times. She is currently the managing editor for Tom Tom, a quarterly magazine about female-identifying drummers, and loves to travel and smile at strangers. Most importantly, Liz is dedicated to singing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” with pizzazz in her most recent role as “Mommy.”
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Liz C
As she has for the past two decades, Liz loves telling the stories of what makes us. As a journalist and columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Lexington Herald-Leader, the Duluth News-Tribune, and others, Liz has won more than 30 awards for her work. Now a writer and novelist, she continues to illuminate others’ lives. When she’s not writing, Liz is an avid camper and cook. Her dream is to buy an RV, travel the country with her dog Chloe, and write about her adventures and the stories she finds.
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Layla B
Layla found her love for story writing in the kitchen. A linguist at heart and by education, her previous careers included teaching English and working in online marketing and public relations. Her greatest passion has been traveling the world and meeting new faces as well as soaking up the smells and tastes of different cultures. Recently, she has been bringing her international experiences to life with cooking. Inspired by Proust’s madeleine, she is currently working on a cookbook project combining recipes with personal memoirs.
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Laura E
Laura's love for story began in the Amazon, where she grew up waterskiing with piranha while learning of head hunters and curses. Her first travel article about her visit to Dracula’s Bran Castle in Romania was published in The Los Angeles Times. She discovered her passion for memoir and biography during a decades-long interview with her dad, a former Japanese POW in WWII. Her ghostwriting skills grew as she interviewed CEOs, celebrities, and style makers for World Travel Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and at E! Entertainment Television.
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Kimberley M
For more than two decades, Kimberley has written for national and regional publications, including People magazine, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, and more. The award-winning journalist has sat down for lengthy interviews with some of the most recognized names in the entertainment field, including Tony Curtis, Justin Timberlake, and Celine Dion, and touched on topics from cutting-edge cancer research to autism. She and her husband, Scott, can be found hiking with their young twins or traveling the Southwest in search of ghost towns and adventure.
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Melanie H
Melanie is a retired U.S. Army soldier with 20 years of service. Born and raised in Tennessee, this curious and quirky southern belle fulfilled service to her country while living her childhood dream of traveling the world. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland, and is completing a master’s degree in Secondary Education from Liberty University. Melanie finds her writing inspiration from a variety of daily experiences, such as meeting new people, and adores writers such as Toni Morrison, Stephen King, and Anne Rice.
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Zach S
Zach’s love of literature, art, languages, and—perhaps most importantly—soccer has taken him all over the world, including to the many corners of the United States; Oxford, England; Ávila, Spain; and Paris, France. He has worked in a variety of fields as a teacher, writer, editor, bookseller, curator, and coach, and is currently a full-time agency writer, as well as a board member for the Pati Hill Foundation. Zach lives outside Philadelphia and, if not reading or writing, is most likely to be found making music or playing sports.
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Adia C
Adia’s story began in 2017 when she was looking for a creative way to sharpen her writing skills. A few ghostwritten novels later, she blossomed into a multifaceted fiction writer with extensive experience in genres such as urban, shifter fantasy, romance, self-help, freelance editorial, and children. Currently, Adia is working towards a writing MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design. Her fervor for crafting stories is kept alive through her growing library of fantasy and non-fiction novels.
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Kelly B S
Kelly is a full-time freelance writer, a longstanding member of the vetted American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), and a member of the well-respected Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). She has traditionally published nearly twenty bylined books on topics ranging from history to pop culture, sports, and business with a strong focus on biographical material. She regularly ghostwrites books, too, including one about the Cleveland football legend, Dante Lavelli, in collaboration with Eden Valley Enterprises and Lavelli’s family. She has also been commissioned to write multiple plays, including one nominated for the Ohio Governor’s Award, and storytelling programs. One script served as the basis of the Emmy Award-nominated documentary, Trail Magic: The Grandma Gatewood Story, which appeared on PBS and won the Best Local Documentary Award at the prestigious Chagrin Documentary Film Festival among other awards. She also wrote the script and served as the associate producer for a new film, Victoria Woodhull: Shattering Glass Ceilings. She’s been published thousands of times in magazines, newspapers, and encyclopedias, including ones put out by Harvard University and Oxford University. She teaches memoir and history writing in multiple locations, including an Ohio college and an Ohio university, speaks at writer’s conferences (including in New York City), has spoken at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and has appeared in an ESPN2 documentary. Boyer Sagert ghostwrites material for B2B and B2C businesses, from one-person shops to Fortune 500 companies, in areas ranging from financial services to medicine, law, retail, agriculture, technology, and much more.
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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
Kaitlin is a ghostwriter, writing coach, award-winning fiction writer, and poet. She has been published in Newsweek, The Washington Post, among others. Her joy is in listening for that unique imprint that is another person’s voice and working to bring that voice to paper. Holding a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Columbia University and a master’s in Secondary English Education from New York University, Kaitlin has a 25-year career in education and communication. She has taught writing in various locations, including colleges, a military base in Japan, and a state incarceration facility, where she taught spiritual writing.
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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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