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, pajamas, & raw, personal stories. Publisher of The Memoirist and The Memoirist Quarterly.

My seriocomic hybrid pieces (prose poetry, microfiction, and mini-essays) focus on what it's like to be an old humanist befuddled by this wacky post-post modern world. I'm an award winning prose poet, adult and YA author..

Gen X smartass translating a chaotic backstory into true tales of love, grief, reinvention, aging, and resilience. Career writer, musician, lazy gardener. Profound one day, witty the next. You never know which side you're gonna get.

MotherFiction explores parenting a child with cancer & three neurodivergent kids while trying to write and work full-time as a music therapist.

I've got an interesting take on what's changed since I made my bones in the heyday of photo assignments, when magazines ruled the media.

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.

Linda Thompson is a Canadian writer whose work has appeared in Grande Dame Literary Journal, Chronicling the Days Dispatches from a Pandemic (Guernica Editions, 2021), Syncopation Literary Journal, More, and Canadian Living Magazine.

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.

Danielle Dragona is the author of the women's fiction novel All That Was Left Unsaid launching on September 29, 2026. Stay tuned for updates and details!

Morally gray, successful person giving social commentary and 20-somethings advice on career, identity, friendships, and love. Observational dry humor.

Publisher of The Pelican's Quill and contributor to The Memoirist. Creative nonfiction writer, public health professor, dog and cat mama, wife of a fellow Gen Xer. I'm fascinated by the moments that shape us.

Stories of me looking for the gold.

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

One who wonders.

Texas ↔ elsewhere

I know more than I'd like to about complex trauma & recovery. I write about both & also things that have helped me: music, humor, books, nature & all that adds beauty and meaning to our lives, not to mention a helluva lot of therapy.

Essays, fiction, interviews and contests. Writing about adulthood, creativity, technology and how to stay whole in the face of systems designed to grind us down.

a weekly newsletter about technology, AI, and (sometimes) my crazy family life in general. by me, a dad of 3 boys, living in singapore, founder of beanies.family.

Newfoundland, Canada

I write about family history, memory and migration. My perspective is shaped by an international, multilingual life and my Russian family’s emigration through Harbin, China. I am the author of “Roots in a Handbag – the Stories of Maria and Olga”.