The Memoirist

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 storytelling. Publisher of The Memoirist and The Memoirist Review.

Wife to one, mom to three, friend to all.

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!

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.

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

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!

Newfoundland, Canada

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

Gen Xer, creative nonfiction writer, and public health professor. Working on a memoir about being committed to a psychiatric hospital as a teen in the 1980s, discovering I was part of a national scandal, and appearing on NBC Nightly News.

One who wonders.

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.

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.

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.

Stories of me looking for the gold.

Texas ↔ elsewhere

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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..

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