The Memoirist

KiKi is an Orange County–based writer raised in the Adirondacks, where big feelings fueled her flair for the dramatic. She loves bad TV, needy dogs, & stories that insist on telling the truth. Publisher of The Memoirist and The Memoirist Quarterly.

Every story has a fragile beginning. I explore the hidden moments behind lives, ideas, and businesses that almost didn’t happen — the invisible ancestry of ordinary things. Author of The Search for Valentina Getsch.

Reflections on fatherhood, disability, and the rituals that hold us together.

And just when she thought she couldn't go on, she did - with wicked humour and a will to survive | Shameless Sugar Addict | Cake is Life

Wife to one, mom to three, friend to all. I may not have all the answers, but I'll help you find them.

Everyone was thinking it...I said it out loud!

I'm Nancy Holroyd -- school nurse, mother of three and writer. Disability advocacy, grief, parenting and school nursing is my focus.

Beauty is everywhere and I am constantly distracted by it. I've made my living as a dancer, designer and writer just trying to leave some beauty behind. Here is where I leave some stories.

Poet. Therapist. Multiple loss survivor. Poems and personal stories on living with grief & trauma. Turning toward what hurts & helping you do the same. Occasionally funny. 100% AI-free. \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udff3️‍\ud83c\udf08

I am a conservative Christian who loves to enjoy the beauty of nature by hiking in parks and on trails. I enjoy writing and reading ! I love to travel when I can and spend time with people I love and enjoy laughing with as often as possible.

Deeply connected to nature and words and creativity, I write memoir essays and am a visual artist, with special interest in mixed media collage art.

Dana VonAllmen is an author, volunteer, and survivor-advocate writing memoir and essays on silence, survival, and reclamation. A former child bride and Survivor Ally, she writes to reclaim voice, tell the truth, and turn silence into strength.

Writing to shine a light on growing up in the counterculture of the 60s and 70s. I am an essayist and a memoirist with a completed manuscript about how my upbringing led to a lifelong yearning for home and belonging.

Dreamer, lover, worrier, problem solver, cynical skeptic, and hopeless romantic, learning to live a life worth writing about.

Mother of 3, writer and caregiver sharing stories of grief, faith and motherhood after losing my son Brady at age 17. Exploring enduring love, the importance of ordinary moments and the hope that lives alongside heartbreak.

Writer of A Tale of Jobs Not Well Done. Fashion stylist, Ad exec, Tech bro, Chef- recovering alcoholic; still figuring it out. Stories about work, failure, identity, and sobriety when no one brings party hats or sparklers. Based in Seattle.

Memoirist and mother writing about survival in 1980s Korea. I grew up in Pohang, an unforgiving steel-mill town, carrying stories too heavy to tell aloud—poverty, gender, endless expectations. Now I'm finally writing them down.

Midlife alchemist, divorced mom. Choosing myself one forbidden feeling at a time. Grounding spirituality in lived tension.