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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sonya Matejko adores writing words and helping people find them(selves). As a freelance writer, part-time poet, and full-time wellness enthusiast, Sonya uses words to make people feel seen and heard. (And always with the Oxford comma.)

Author of "When Longing Becomes Your Lover" | Bylines in NYT, WaPo, NPR, NatGeo, Vogue TEDx

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

Amy Gallo Ryan is a Brooklyn-based writer and former Condé Nast magazine editor whose personal essays have appeared in Vogue, Lit Hub and Hippocampus. Her infertility memoir, You May Feel a Bit of Pressure, was released last fall.

Charlene Trino is a Filipino-American writer based in Northern California. Her work explores the intersections of queerness, faith, and cultural identity.