Open Secrets Magazine

Open Secrets is a lit mag and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.”

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Passionate about living well and enjoying life's pleasures. Author of The Tea Library and Hope No One Reads This.

Hi! I'm a New York-based writer and textile designer.

Rachel Crowl is a two-time Obie award winning actor, musician, and photographer who has been creating one thing or another for a long time. She has worked in theater, film, television, video games, and scripted podcasts.

I’m a professional silly goose that’s done a bunch of fun comedy/TV things. My newsletter is about how losing my boobs made me lose my mind. ✨

A PERFECT EXPLANATION (Salt Books) A MEMOIR IN 65 POSTCARDS & THE RECOVERY DIARIES (Troubador) IN JUDGEMENT OF OTHERS (Troubador) FALLOUT (Empress Editions) - rep'd by Jenny Savill ANA

Alexis Buncich (she/her) is a writer, actor, and producer. She explains Taylor Swift lyrics at Taylor Swift, Explained and runs a weekly NYC/London events newsletter at Overt Consumption. Learn more at alexisbuncich.com.

I write stories that let readers feel and make them think. Latest book: Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration. New novel: Tent City. Author. Book Coach. Creativity Counselor.

Jocelyn Jane Cox is the author of the memoir Motion Dazzle (Vine Leaves Press 9/30/2025). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She was a competitive figure skater (for 11 years) and coach (for over 20 years).

Writer and editor of the upcoming anthology This Is Not Your Mother's Eating Disorder: Stories of Eating Disorders in Midlife Women, nonprofit leader, abortion doula | yoga teacher | mother | activist

Writer living in Detroit. Author of the book, I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy.

Traveling full time and writing postcards from wherever I am. I'm writing a book about how children are taught to read in different parts of the world.

Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Woman House and Depth Control. She is a 2022 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow, and teaches at Washington State University, where she serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review.

Writer and leadership consultant at The HI (Human Intelligence) Stack. Author THIS INCREDIBLE LONGING, Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience (Heliotrope). Undercover sorceress. More at www.blairglaser.com

Melanie Cole is a poet and writer from Tacoma, Washington. She has been published in Grit City Magazine, Dandelion Revolution Press, and PHIL LIT Journal, among others. She has held residency at Sou’Wester Arts. She has publications upcoming.

Author of The Loneliness Files and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Nonfiction Editor at Split/Lip Press. Music Lover. Philly via Ohio.

Creative non-fiction writer because former doctor, four kids, special needs parenting, rebellious teens, move to Germany and midlife happened.

Bethany Hansel is a writer currently living in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Melissa Meinzer began her writing career in the alt-weekly world in Pittsburgh. She lives and writes in St. Louis and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Find her online at @meinzermelissa.