Open Secrets Magazine
Open Secrets Magazine, River Selby (they/them), Rachel Kramer Bussel, Leah Odze Epstein, Josh Friedberg, Anna Rollins, Megan Marolf, John DeVore, Jesi Vega, Nicole Giordano, Lucy Felthouse, Judith Lam Tang, Shawna Ayoub, Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Brenden O'Donnell, Athena Dixon, Ashley Peterson, Parker Jin, Lora BergOpen Secrets is an online magazine and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep "secret." Contact Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel at opensecretsmag at gmail.com
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Open Secrets is a home and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.”
Ex-firefighter; PhD candidate; autistic, queer, nonbinary person; hype man in civvies. My memoir, HOTSHOT, debuted August 2025 and is available wherever books are sold.
Writer on motherhood, culture, books, personal finance, belonging and belongings. Editor of Open Secrets Magazine. https://rachelkramerbussel.com
Artist and writer trying to figure out who people really ARE. Co-editor of Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up.
Author, music historian, scholar, TEDx speaker \ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08 #writer #author #music #TEDx #actuallyautistic Bylines @PopMatters @GoodMenProject etc.
Author of Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl (Eerdmans, 2025). Work in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Electric Literature, NBCNews, etc. English faculty in higher education for nearly 15 years. Mom of 3.
Your biased guide to the skies | Spoiled world traveler | Obsessed with the West
I'm a writer living in New York City. Hello! My memoir, 'Theatre Kids', is available at bookstores and online.
I support Global Majority creators to craft new stories and express their ideas. I've got ADHD, I'm on the autism spectrum, and I love to cook.
Writer, business owner, traveler, and lover of all things books and food.
Writer of steamy and/or romantic words, editor, marketer. Fingers in many pies.
author. advocate. activist. fighting for justice equity diversity inclusion. parenting at the intersection of race, neurodivergence, queerness. author of MUTED COLOURS, forthcoming in 2027 with Dundurn Press. #YEG
Shawna Ayoub is a brown, queer, Durham-based writer and instructor. She teaches through Survive Your Story, Center for Creative Writing, and is Director of Programs for Literary Liberation.
Mom | Journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin | Author of the new book, "SLIP: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery."
I write Geek Out: a memoir, pedagogy, and cultural criticism newsletter \ud83d\udc9c\ud83e\ude90\ud83e\udd84 \ud83e\udddb\ud83c\udffb
Author of The Loneliness Files and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Nonfiction/Hybrid Editor at Split/Lip Press. Music Lover. Philly via Ohio.
Born and raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I write for fun (and healing) about what it’s like to be a progressive white lady from the South.
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