The Memoirist
KiKi Walter, Peter Johnson, Karen Lunde, Erin Lunde, Tom Zimberoff, Marcia Abboud, Glenna Gill, Linda Thompson, Leslie Senevey, Danielle Dragona, Kate Otsuka, Krista Schumacher, Marcello Mongardi, Cris Eggers, Tom Brouillette, Mark Roy Long, Laurie MC, Charlie Finch, greg, Kat Kerr, Elena E. RaklevThe Memoirist is a welcoming community for writers to share memoirs and personal essays. You can also find us at thememoiristquarterly.com and on Medium at thememoiristpub.com.
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The Exquisite Pain of a Complicated Loss
My mom’s passport photo from 1966, four years before I was born
Every night since my mom died, as I’m falling asleep, I hear her voice in my head saying, “Oh, hi!”
It’s what she said every time she picked up the phone, heard my voice, and...
Like a Snake Shedding its Skin
We moved from suburbia to the country and within a month we had two horses, two cats, five kittens, a dog, four sheep and two peacocks. Within three months the livestock count had doubled. I began to wonder if I might be living the reincarn...
My Parents’ Entirely Fictional Divorce
Long before I wanted to be a writer, I knew exactly what happened to me when the lights came up. I learned very young that I liked applause.
I couldn’t have been more than three or four the first time I found myself on a stage in Albany, T...
Somebody Should Sing
I grew up on the 1800 block of Bucknell Street in North Philly, five blocks east of the official Strawberry Mansion line, where concrete stoops served as front porches and the corner store sold water ice and comic books. Those stoops were m...
Lawn Chair
From the series: portraits from my Midwest childhood.
Throw the lawn chair in the trunk, it’s time to go to the racetrack.
Coolers, camping gear, bags of clothes and whatever else we need for the weekend are stuffed in the back of our car...
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Authors
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KiKi is a SoCal-based writer with a flair for the dramatic and one heckuva snarky side-eye. Raised in the Adirondacks, she loves bad TV, living in her PJs, her asshole dogs, and raw, personal storytelling. Publisher of The Memoirist.
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. Stick around to see which side shows up!
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.
Creative nonfiction writer, public health professor, dog and cat mama, and 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 mainly 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 published “Roots in a Handbag – the Stories of Maria and Olga”.
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