Open Secrets Magazine

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

I write about culture, books, personal finance, and myself. I'm editing an essay anthology and launching a podcast on our attachments to our belongings. https://rachelkramerbussel.com

An award-winning sexual health educator and entrepreneur. Media: CNN, NPR, NBC News, The Guardian, Fast Company and more.

Hello! I'm Mary, an asexual individual with a passion for fanfiction and a love for expressing their thoughts and opinions on both subjects.

RN, nonbinary trauma-informed comedian, writer, and storyteller so common in modern Brooklyn.

Elizabeth Austin is a writer and solo cancer mom. Her work has been published with Narratively, Harper's Bazaar, McSweeney's, HuffPost, The Sun, and others. Find out more at writingelizabeth.com and on Instagram @writingelizabeth

Author/teacher/forever student helping people to meditate in words and movement.

Siham Lee is a Chilean writer, nowadays living everywhere and nowhere. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing and spends most of her time writing fiction, personal essays and short stories, unless she's too busy watching the same old romcoms.

Asya Graf is a writer, swimmer, and psychotherapist living in Brooklyn. Her writing obsessions include swimming, eco-grief, and Soviet trauma. She's written a memoir about (queer) failure and athletics. She can be found at www.asyagrafwrites.com.

Helping you break free from high-control childhoods—whether it’s Purity Culture, narcissistic abuse, cults, or just growing up in a bat-shit crazy patriarchy. ❤️

A hacker and writer based in the PNW. I write about music, culture, the end of the world, and other lighthearted ephemera. I'm trying to be Sisyphus, not Cassandra.

I'm a writer and a parent and I'm tired.

Author of The Loneliness Files and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Nonfiction/Hybrid 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.)

A practicing lawyer in Vermont, Justin Kolber is a recovered ripped dude, an athlete, activist, and author of Ripped, the first memoir about the dual extremes of muscle and food disorders. Free newsletter at https://justinkolber.substack.com/

L.A. Montana’s work has been previously published in various online magazines. She is based in New England.