Courtney Peppernell
Courtney Peppernell is an acclaimed best-selling author from Australia, celebrated for her inspirational poetry collections, including the beloved Pillow Thoughts series, Watering the Soul, I Hope You Stay, Time Will Tell and more. With over two million sales worldwide, she continues to lead the forefront of today’s poetry genre. Courtney spends her days writing and working on many projects with her beloved dogs and chickens in tow. She hopes to continue exploring expression and the art of healing through stories, novels and poetry for years to come. Stay tuned for the latest releases from Courtney and her team!
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F.S. Yousaf
F.S. Yousaf is a poet and writer from New Jersey. He is the author of five poetry collections, and finds himself writing about many topics—most notably about love, spirituality, and boyhood. He has a Bachelors in History and Secondary Education and is getting his MFA in Creative Writing from William Paterson University.
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Gaby Comprés is an educator and poet from Santo Domingo who was born in 1996. Inspired by nature, people and her own experiences, she has been writing poetry since March 2014. Her work has been published in several magazines, including Grafted Magazine and Majesty. She published her first poetry collection, A Song of Bravery, in March 2015, at the age of eighteen. Her second collection, the words i want you to keep, was published in June 2017. When she is not writing, she is reading and thinking about writing. Her most recent collection is titled ‘if you ever read a poem’, published in July 2018.
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Iain S. Thomas
"Iain S. Thomas is the #1 bestselling author of I Wrote This For You and Intentional Dissonance. He wrote his first book, Ignite, at the age of 23 for the Markham clothing store. It won the Grand Prix at the First Paper House Art Of Design Awards and the only craft prize awarded that year, in the design category, at the national design/advertising awards (The Loeries).
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As a creative director, he’s a champion for innovative design and communication for his clients which have included Nike, Levi’s, Johnny Walker, The Design Indaba, MTN, apple and many more, from Los Angeles, to Amsterdam, to Johannesburg, to Cape Town. His work has spanned everything from monuments to biodegradable posters.
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Shelby Leigh
Shelby Leigh is a mental health poet writing about self-love, insecurities, anxiety, relationships and more. Her third poetry book, girl made of glass, released a #1 bestseller in women's poetry in 2023. Her longest collection yet, the book uncovers how our past - past relationships, memories, and ourselves - can haunt us.
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Her second poetry book, changing with the tides, is a #1 amazon bestseller, originally released in 2019. The new edition was released by Gallery Books in July 2022.
In addition to writing, Shelby runs an online poetry community with workshops and edits poetry books.
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S.K. Williams
S.K. Williams is the collaborative creation of a couple who reside in Washington State. They met at the bookstore they worked at and began to run an Instagram page together. They have cultivated a healthy relationship together and hope to connect with people and help them find the strength within their own vulnerability. They have dealt with bullying, grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, mental health, unhealthy relationships, and experienced some of their family struggle with substance abuse. Through these hardships and their connection to each other, they’ve grown stronger and learned how to better love others as well as themselves.
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Melody Godfred
Melody Godfred is a poet, author, and speaker who is passionate about empowering people to love themselves and transform their lives.
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Melody started her career as a litigation attorney, but soon realized a disconnect between her work and essence, so she left a prestigious position at a top law firm to launch Write In Color, her personal branding and career development company. She quickly established her reputation as a leader in the career development space. Through her work as a coach exploring the narratives of hundreds of women, and after undergoing several life transitions herself -- including motherhood -- Melody discovered a common trend: in their quest to fuel their careers and relationships, women were increasingly sacrificing thei -
Rupi Kaur
A breakout literary phenomenon and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Rupi Kaur wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first poetry collection, 'milk and honey' in 2014. Next came its artistic siblings 'the sun and her flowers' and ‘home body’, both debuting at #1 on bestseller lists across the world. These collections have sold more than 11 million copies and have been translated into over 43 languages. Most recently in 2022- she released her 4th book ‘Healing Through Words’ which is a journey of guided writing exercises to help the reader explore their creativity.
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Jennae Cecelia
Jennae Cecelia is a bestselling author and poet, recognized for her books The Sun Will Rise and So Will We and Healing For No One But Me and the viral “I met my younger self for coffee” poem. Starting in 2016, she self-published her debut book which became a #1 bestseller on Amazon. Her mission is to write words that comfort and resonate deeply with her audience. Jennae spends her time creating custom poetry for readers, turning her poems into illustrated pieces, and teaching other authors how to share their writing with the world.
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Amanda Lovelace
Amanda Lovelace is a bestselling American poet who rose to fame through her poetry posted to Tumblr and Instagram. She is the author of the women are some kind of magic series, including the Goodreads Choice Award-winning the princess saves herself in this one and women are some kind of magic.
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Michaela Angemeer
Michaela Angemeer (she/they) is a queer Canadian poet who’s passionate about sharing her healing journey and inspiring readers to spend more time with their feelings.
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They’ve published five best-selling collections of poetry including When He Leaves You, You’ll Come Back to Yourself, Please Love Me at My Worst, Poems for the Signs, and There Is Room for All of You Here.
Michaela’s newest book, Please Look into the Mirror, is about facing the darkness to find light. Separated into three sections: Glass, Mirror, and Reflection, it’s about the mother wound, gaining a deeper sense of self, learning to take accountability and finding relief in cycle breaking.
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Rupi Kaur
A breakout literary phenomenon and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Rupi Kaur wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first poetry collection, 'milk and honey' in 2014. Next came its artistic siblings 'the sun and her flowers' and ‘home body’, both debuting at #1 on bestseller lists across the world. These collections have sold more than 11 million copies and have been translated into over 43 languages. Most recently in 2022- she released her 4th book ‘Healing Through Words’ which is a journey of guided writing exercises to help the reader explore their creativity.
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As she has done from the very beginning, Rupi self-produced ‘Rupi Kaur Live’, the first poetry special of its kind, which debuted on Amazon Prime Video in 2021.
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Melody Godfred
Melody Godfred is a poet, author, and speaker who is passionate about empowering people to love themselves and transform their lives.
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Melody started her career as a litigation attorney, but soon realized a disconnect between her work and essence, so she left a prestigious position at a top law firm to launch Write In Color, her personal branding and career development company. She quickly established her reputation as a leader in the career development space. Through her work as a coach exploring the narratives of hundreds of women, and after undergoing several life transitions herself -- including motherhood -- Melody discovered a common trend: in their quest to fuel their careers and relationships, women were increasingly sacrificing thei -
Amanda Lovelace
Amanda Lovelace is a bestselling American poet who rose to fame through her poetry posted to Tumblr and Instagram. She is the author of the women are some kind of magic series, including the Goodreads Choice Award-winning the princess saves herself in this one and women are some kind of magic.
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Mark Matousek
Mark is a bestselling author, teacher, and speaker whose work focuses on personal awakening and creative excellence through self-inquiry and life writing. He brings three decades of experience as a memoirist, editor, interviewer, survivor, activist, and spiritual seeker to his penetrating and thought provoking work with students. His workshops, classes, and mentoring have inspired thousands of people around the world to reach their artistic and personal goals.
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Tyler Knott Gregson
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pleasefindthis
pleasefindthis (the pen name of Iain S. Thomas) is best known for the I Wrote This For You project, which he began in 2007 as a blog with photographer, Jon Ellis. The project was published as a book in December of 2011 and appears on bestseller lists weekly.
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He lives in Cape Town, South Africa and shares his home with his wife, daughter and various animals. -
Danielle Doby
The everyday moments, and the extraordinary moments, have always made the most sense to Danielle in words. In their cadence and their rhythm, in the way they can move a moment forward, or pull a moment to a slow stop. Where others may hear the conversation by way of what was said next, Danielle has always heard the space between, and all the words left unsaid. She began to write these words, those spaces, onto paper. In this has grown a truth she could no longer write just in the margins, as a maybe, or a sometime, but rather as air, as water, as basic survival.
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The lineage of women before her have always said to her in no uncertain terms that the time to be brave, is now. That the time to be quiet, is never. And how you choose to share, th -
Alicia Cook
Alicia Cook is a multi-award-winning writer and poet based in Newark, New Jersey. Her writing often focuses on addiction, mental health, and grief – sometimes all at once. She is the curly-haired human behind the poetry books Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately, I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip, Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back, and The Music Was Just Getting Good. Her work has been adapted into music and dance, and has been published in a number of anthologies, as well as in The New York Times, The Asbury Park Press, and Writer’s Digest. Her most recent poetry award is the 2026 Central Avenue Poetry Prize for her poem "The Squirrel Made His Way."
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Billy Chapata
Billy Chapata is a Zimbabwean writer, author, and creative based in Atlanta, Georgia. Billy's work aims to touch on the concepts of love, healing, connections, and growth, through poetry, storytelling, and narrative. Writing came into his life as a means of sustenance, self-love, and empowerment: Billy writes to heal, he writes to grow, he writes to survive. His poetically infused words, memorable lessons, and bittersweet experiences have become a point of resonance and comfort for many across the world.
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Sean Smith
Sean Smith is the UK’s leading celebrity biographer and the author of the number one bestseller Cheryl, as well as bestselling books about Tom Jones, Robbie Williams and Kate Middleton.
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His books about the most famous people of our times has been translated throughout the world. His subjects include Adele, Kim Kardashian, Gary Barlow, Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Aniston and J.K. Rowling. The film Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story was based on his biography of the Harry Potter author.
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Adam Gasiewski
Adam Gasiewski is a 19 year old writer, entrepreneur, and programmer from Philadelphia, PA. He has three apps on the App Store, manages a portfolio of personal investments, and is the founder of the wealth management firm RotoVest. He also writes in his spare time, with his latest book being Milk and Vine, a parody of the popular poetry book Milk and Honey.
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Trista Mateer
Trista Mateer is the bestselling author of multiple poetry collections, including Aphrodite Made Me Do It and Honeybee. She is a passionate mental health advocate, currently writing in South Carolina. Connect with her on Instagram and Tiktok @tristamateer or at tristamateer.com.
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Noor Unnahar
Noor Unnahar is a modern-day artist and poet whose work combines handwritten text, illustrations, tactile collage, and photography to illuminate themes of hope, home, self-love, culture, acceptance, and survival. Her poetry has been translated into a number of languages, which include published translations of her debut collection Yesterday I Was the Moon (Penguin Random House, 2018) in Dutch (Gisteren Was Ik De Maan, MUSE, 2019) and Chinese (Pan Press, 2021).
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F.D. Soul
Just another stray human searching for the words to describe the 'ugh' I feel between my ribs. You can find me on Instagram (@featherdownsoul), or in the garden picking things with my toes and feeding pumpkin to the caterpillars.
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Catarine Hancock
Catarine Hancock is a 25-year-old poet, author and opera singer from Lexington, Kentucky, currently living in Chicago. She holds a bachelor of music in vocal performance from the University of Kentucky and a master of music in voice from Indiana University.
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Aside from music, writing is her other great love. Having been a bookworm and writer all her life, her passion for poetry began at the age of 13, and shortly afterward, she began sharing her writing online. Over the past 11 years, her platform has grown to an audience of over 300,000. She is the author of five poetry collections: "shades of lovers" (2020), "sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you" (2021), and "i gave myself the world" (2023), all published with Central Avenue Publishi -
Morgan Harper Nichols
Morgan Harper Nichols is an artist, poet, and musician who makes her work around people and their stories.
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Morgan spent the first few years of her adult life as a college admission counselor, and then, as a full-time touring singer-songwriter and musician. It was on the road that she cultivated her curiosity and passion for the written word and art, and slowly began to share her art with others online.
In 2017, Morgan started a project where she invites people to submit their stories to her website. From there, she creates art inspired by what they send her, and then, sends them the art, for free. Nearly everything Morgan creates and shares today is from this project, and she always keeps the names and stories anonymous. The fruit of this pro -
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Shawn Robbins
Shawn Robbins, noted author/psychic and paranormal researcher, has been ranked one of the top ten psychics in the world.
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She was a special consultant for the New York City Police Department, (murder and white collar crime cases) United States Navy, (psychic spying) and numerous leading corporations.
Shawn is an expert in the field of mystical, spiritual and holistic sciences, having lectured extensively on these subjects throughout her career. She was one of the original psychics in the CIA Stargate program, trained to spy on the Russian Government. Her code name was Madame Zodiac.
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Ginnie Bale
Ginnie Bale is a poet from Germany.
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She fell in love with poetry while reading Rupi Kaur's Milk & Honey in 2018 and started writing poetry when she met her soulmate in the same year.
In her writing Ginnie Bale processes past trauma, toxic relationships and heartfelt emotions. She writes about love, hope, discovering self love and finding herself.
Some of her favorite writers are Atticus, Faraway Poetry, Chloe Frayne, Beau Taplin, Dane Thomas, Caroline White along with writers as Charles Bukowski, Oscar Wilde, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, E. E. Cummings, Ralph Waldo Emerson and many more.
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Gabbie Hanna
Gabbie Hanna is an American YouTuber with over 6,000,000 subscribers. She is the author of Adultolescence, a comedian, actress, and singer-songwriter.
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Lili Reinhart
Lili Reinhart is an actress and advocate for mental health awareness. Swimming Lessons is her first collection of poetry.
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bridgett devoue
i've always had the urge to write for as long as i can remember. my earliest writing memory is from middle school, when we had to write a poem for a class assignment. naturally, i was drawn to writing about my darkest, most vulnerable experiences. my poem was voted best in the class, and i got to read in front of the entire school. i recieved a standing ovation, and realized that my words could make others cry, not out of sadness, but out of connection.
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as life went on, i eventually stopped writing, spending the next few years making mistakes & learning, on repeat. after a breakup, job change and a sudden onset of chronic pain, i found myself overwhelmed by life. writing became more than an escape: it was healing me. i began sharing my work -
K.Y. Robinson
K.Y. Robinson is an introverted writer based in Houston, Texas. She began writing poetry and short stories in her pre-teens after secretly reading letters that her mother wrote to God tucked inside her bible. They taught her a great lesson on vulnerability. As a withdrawn child suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness, Robinson spent a lot of time alone. Writing naturally became her sanctuary.
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With unapologetic candor and vivid imagery, Robinson draws inspiration from being a woman of color, trauma and mental illness survivor, and hopeless romantic. She believes in undressing every emotion until they’re naked and have no where else to turn to but pages. She believes that poetry is the weapon and the healer. -
Samantha Schutz
I am a writer and children’s book editor living in Brooklyn, NY. My first book, I Don’t Want to Be Crazy, is a memoir about anxiety disorder written in verse. My second book, You Are Not Here, is a verse-novel about grief and loss. I am currently working on my third book for young adults.
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Thought Catalog
Thought Catalog is a website founded in 2010 by American entrepreneur and media strategist Chris Lavergne. Owned by The Thought & Expression Company, the site attracts 25 million monthly unique visitors. -Wikipedia
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Diane Guerrero
Diane Guerrero is an actress on the hit shows Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin. She volunteers with the nonprofit Immigrant Legal Resource Center, as well as with Mi Familia Vota, an organization that promotes civic involvement. She has been named an Ambassador for Citizenship and Naturalization by the White House. She lives in New York City.
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Tanya Markul
Tanya Markul started writing when she was six years old. She used to scribble lines on top of lines and called it ‘poetry’. Early in life she discovered emotional pain to be a sustainable resource for her work—and hasn’t stopped writing since. Her themes explore heartache, loss, abandonment, rejection and mental health. In her words, she writes for the ‘rejected ones’ and to ‘revolutionise pain’. Her quotes, stories, poems and prose have touched readers around the world. She hopes to be a source of inspiration and empowerment for years to come.
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Dawn Lanuza
Dawn Lanuza writes contemporary romance, young adult fiction and prose poetry. She has two first loves – music and writing – and is lucky enough to surround herself with them. She currently lives with her family and a very loved cream toy poodle.
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Katie Kacvinsky
I am publishing my latest book (in 2017) under the pen name KATIE RAY. Be sure to check out my other books (First Comes Love, Second Chance, Finally Forever, Awaken, Middle Ground, and Still Point), published under my legal name, KATIE KACVINSKY. You can find out more about me and my books at my website:
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E.J. Levy
EJ Levy’s debut novel, THE CAPE DOCTOR (Little Brown), was named a NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice book, one of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of Summer, and won a 2022 Colorado Book Award. A French edition was published by L'Olivier in 2023 and won the 2024 Prix Libr'a Nous for Foreign Fiction. Her story collection, LOVE, IN THEORY, won a Flannery O’Connor Award and GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction; KIRKUS named it a Best Indie Book of the Year. Levy’s anthology, TASTING LIFE TWICE: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers, won a Lambda Literary Award. Her work has appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PARIS REVIEW, KENYON REVIEW, THE WASHINGTON POST, BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, ORION, and THE NATION, and has been twice named among Distingui
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Grant Chemidlin
Grant Chemidlin is the author of What We Lost in the Swamp (Central Avenue Poetry, 2023), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His newest collection, In the Middle of a Better World, will be published by Central Avenue Poetry in February 2026. Recent poems can be found in The Los Angeles Review, Palette Poetry, Laurel Review, Quarterly West, and the Academy of American Poets, among others. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband and cat.
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Tablo
Daniel Armand Lee, whose Korean name is Lee Seon-Woong (이선웅), is more commonly known by his stage name Tablo (타블로). He is a hip hop musician, rap artist, songwriter and lyricist. He is best known as the rapper and leader of the South Korean hip hop group Epik High.
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David Jones
David Jones was born in 1989 in Liverpool, which is still his home. He studied English language and Literature at the University of Liverpool before specializing in Renaissance and Eighteenth Century Literature. He started writing at an early age, and has won numerous prizes for both poetry and prose, as well as writing plays for the radio and producing short films. His chief interests apart from writing are Renaissance texts, performing and producing music, and playing sports.
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Aman Raghav
I am very touched by the problems of Mental health. I have been working to help people through my words for the past few years. It gives me so much pain that Mental Health isn't normalized yet and we have to hide it because of the fears of society. I want to spread as much awareness as possible.
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Lisbeth Zwerger
Lisbeth Zwerger is an Austrian illustrator of children's books. For her "lasting contribution to children's literature" she received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1990.
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Born in Vienna in 1954, she studied at the local Applied Arts Academy from 1971 to 1974. Since the publication of her first illustrated book in 1977, she has worked as a freelance picture book illustrator specializing in fairy tales. -
Parker Lee
Parker Lee [she/her] is a trans woman poet and storyteller, as well as author of coffee days whiskey nights and espresso shots & forget-me-nots. A midwestern transplant, Parker resides in a coastal New Jersey town alongside wife and poetess amanda lovelace (and their three cats), where she can almost always be found not writing when she should be, drinking way too much coffee, and waxing autumnal every single day of the year.
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John Bowie
John Bowie was born in Northumberland, Northern England.
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He has published poems, novels and short stories. He studied in Salford, Greater Manchester in the 1990s. He lives in Bristol, U.K.
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Liz Newman
Liz Newman is a blogger and a poet from the Midwest who writes primarily on grief, faith, life, mental health, and relationships.
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Her poetry book "I Look to the Mourning Sky" received a Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal in 2022 in the Inspirational Poetry Category.
Her words have been shared on "Her View From Home", "Read Poetry", "Love What Matters", and "The Mighty". They have also appeared in the London Underground.
She believes in the power of words to comfort, connect, and bring hope. Her journey through grief has been a humbling reminder of how desperately we all need grace and each other.
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Rania Naim
Rania Naim grew up in Cairo, Egypt with more than just a passion for writing, it was her dream. After living some of her most pivotal years stateside, Rania is able to couple her dream while bringing a range of topics to light.
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Laura Driscoll
Laura Driscoll is the author of numerous first chapter and beginning reader books, including We Are Twins and The Bravest Cat! She lives in central Connecticut with her husband and two children.
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Caroline Kaufman
Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison on Instagram—began writing poetry when she was thirteen years old as a means of coping with her depression. A year later, she started posting it online, and what started as a personal way to combat mental illness eventually became an account with hundreds of thousands of followers across social media.
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Caitlyn Siehl
Caitlyn is primarily interested in healing. Growing up in a small town in New Jersey, she began writing poetry three years ago with the intention of bringing pain to the surface, of clawing through the dirt and excavating it before singing it to sleep. She tries to be gentle with what hurts, and it has helped.
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Currently a student at Rutgers University, Caitlyn is studying film and journalism in the hopes of becoming a screenwriter. -
Alfa Holden
Alfa is a writer of poetic thoughts. She holds degrees in English Literature as well as Radiologic Sciences.
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From a wide-planked porch in Kentucky, Alfa is most likely indulging in ice tea while painting a furniture piece some fabulous shade of turquoise, or crafting something extraordinary out of vintage buttons and brooches. -
Yung Pueblo
Diego Perez is a meditator, writer, and speaker who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name Yung Pueblo. The name yung pueblo means “young people.” it serves to remind him of his Ecuadorian roots, his experiences in activism, and that the collective of humanity is in the midst of important growth. his favorite word, liberation, took on a deeper meaning once he started meditating vipassana. through writing and speaking, he aims to support the healing of the individual, realizing that when we release our personal burdens, we contribute to a global peace.
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Olivia G. Booms
Olivia G. Booms was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at age two, couldn’t read until age ten, and now somehow writes young adult fiction. Olivia writes about broken characters that still shine with hope, light, and a touch of the extraordinary for girls who want to be seen, known, and loved.
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In her spare time, Olivia can be found chasing down cats that don’t belong to her, drinking too much tea, and organizing her bookshelves by color. -
Amelia Earhart
American aviator Amelia Earhart, the first such woman, flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 and from Hawaii to California in 1935. While attempting to fly around the world, she crashed in the Pacific Ocean in 1937 and presumably died, and people never found her.
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People note Amelia Mary Earhart, a pioneer and author. Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross, award. She set many other records and wrote best-selling books about her experiences; she instrumentally formed The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
During a circumnavigation of the globe, Earhart disappeared over the near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day. She went missing July 2, 1937, and people decl -
Vivian Tu
Vivian Tu began her career as a J.P. Morgan Equities Trader, where she traded Industrials, Materials, and Energy stocks, as well as Event Driven Special Situations via the Risk Arbitrage team. She then pivoted to become a BuzzFeed Strategy Sales Partner, helping brands execute multi-channel marketing campaigns. She made her first $1M by 27 and is the CEO & Founder of Your Rich BFF Media LLC. She lives in the heart of New York City and is likely chowing down on Scarr’s pizza in the Lower East Side or running (read: briskly walking) down the West Side Highway.
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Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo
Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo was born on March 16, 1988 in Los Angeles, California. Jhené began writing poetry at 6 years old. At 13, she signed to a major record label and began her career as a recording artist. Today, she is a mother of one, a three-time Grammy nominated singer/songwriter and a poet. 2Fish is Jhené’s first published book.
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Mirtha Michelle Castro Mármol
Mirtha Michelle Castro Mármol is a Dominican born actress and poet. At the age of five her family migrated to Miami, Florida. She wrote her first poem at the age of six and since then cultivated a passion for poetry. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California. “Letters, To The Men I Have Loved” is her debut as an author. It consists of profound letters and poems directed to various men during different milestones in her life. Her work expresses loss, love, pain, growth and hope.
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Jessamy Hibberd
Dr Jessamy is a clinical psychologist, author and mother of three. She lives in Hove by the sea and loves spending time on the beach with her family, as well as cycling in the South Downs.
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Jessamy runs an online clinic and has over 15 years experience in clinical practice. She has written nine books including The Imposter Cure, described by the Sunday Times as “the definitive guide to tackling and understanding the psychological mind trap of imposter syndrome.”
Her latest book, How to Overcome Trauma and Find Yourself Again: 7 Steps to Grow From Pain, unriddles the effects of trauma and shows how we can use tough times to look within ourselves and to re-evaluate. They can remind us how precious life is and what is important, and give us the p -
Madisen Kuhn
Madisen Kuhn is a poet from Charlottesville, Virginia. She likes to explore topics of identity, belonging, sexuality, and mental illness in her work.
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At 19, Madisen self-published her first poetry collection, Eighteen Years, after gaining a following on Tumblr and Instagram. She went on to publish Please Don't Go Before I Get Better in 2018 with Gallery Books. Her third book, Almost Home, was a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards — Best Poetry Books of 2019.
Her fourth collection of poetry, Bad At Existing, explores the complexities of identity, self-expression, longing, and hope—capturing the duality of wanting to be seen by the world while wanting to hide from it. It is set to be released on October 4, 2022. -
Halsey
Halsey, born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and recipient of the prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Hal David Starlight Award. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Najwa Zebian
Najwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian author, speaker, and educator. Her passion for language was evident from a young age, as she delved into Arabic poetry and novels.
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The search for a home—what Najwa describes as a place where the soul and heart feel at peace—was central to her early years. When she arrived in Canada at the age of sixteen, she felt unstable and adrift in an unfamiliar place.
Nevertheless, she completed her education, and went on to become a teacher as well as a doctoral candidate in educational leadership. Her first students, a group of young refugees, led her back to her original passion: writing. She began to heal her sixteen-year-old self by writing to heal her students.
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Jordan, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she later received her B.A. in English and world religions from Trinity University. She is a novelist, poet and songwriter.
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She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. She was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2010. -
Rose Brik
Rose Brik is a Canadian writer and poet. She has been writing since a young age and professionally as a freelance writer, since 2012. Rose's writing resonates with readers on a profoundly relatable level, becoming a mirror of shared emotions and universal truths, creating an intimate connection between her and her readers. When she isn't writing, she can be found with the people she loves; cherishing each moment she has with them.
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Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950. She studied at Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University. Forché is the author of four books of poetry: Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2004); The Angel of History (1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us (1982), which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Gathering the Tribes (1976), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. She is also the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993). Among her translations are Mahmoud Darwish's Unfortunately, It Wa
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Connor Franta
Connor Joel Franta is an Internet sensation and global trendsetter with millions of followers on YouTube and many other social media platforms.
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He is the founder of Common Culture Coffee and works closely with The Thirst Project, a charity that provides clean drinking water in Africa, for which he raised more than $230,000 in thirty days.
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Phil Kaye
Raised in a California beach town to a Japanese mother and Jewish-American father, Phil first fell in love with spoken word poetry at age 17. Since then, he has performed in hundreds of venues in fifteen countries. His work has been viewed online over five million times and featured in media outlets ranging from NPR to Al Jazeera America to Upworthy.com. Most recently, Phil was invited to perform alongside His Holiness The Dalai Lama for the celebration of his 80th birthday. He is the co-director of Project VOICE, an organization that uses poetry as tool to promote empowerment, improve literacy, and encourage empathy and creative collaboration in classrooms and communities. Through his work with Project VOICE, Phil has worked hands-on with
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Kate Fox
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
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Kate Fox is a social anthropologist and Public Relations director. She is the director of the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC).
Fox is the daughter of an anthropologist Robin Fox (not to be confused with the famous historian Robin Lane Fox). As a child she lived in the UK, the United States, France and Ireland. She studied for an undergraduate degree in anthropology and philosophy at Cambridge University. After a period in publishing and marketing in 1989 she became a co-director of MCM Research, a PR and marketing firm. She is now a director of the Social Issues Research Centre, which is a PR front group, that is funded by the marketing company MCM Rese -
Sez Kristiansen
These books have been created for sensitive souls who want to heal and empower themselves through the profound power of story medicine.
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Through the spoken word, journaling, meditation, poetry & mindful listening, you will be guided back to the essence of yourself - the whole, validated, worthy, confident & self-guided reality of who you already are.
The mission of Sez' work is to provide you with a mirror of the voice you already have in your own head. The words used in all of these meditations, storytellings and poetry come from living in the wilderness and being closer to that unconditional Heart that speaks of kindness, healing & presence.
This is the place where words are planted as seeds into the very heart of your being - and where you -
Leeza Jayde
Leeza Jayde is an Australian poet, teacher, and mental health advocate whose work is inspired by the quiet magic of everyday life and the depth of the human experience. With honesty, vulnerability, and compassion, her poetry explores themes of healing, love, loss, grief, and existentialism, written with the hope that her words might help others feel understood and comforted.
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When she isn’t lost between the pages of a paperback, Leeza shares her words with a growing community on Instagram at @leezajaydepoetry. -
Sabina Laura
Sabina Laura is a writer, poet, and illustrator from the UK. She fell in love with writing and language at a young age and went on to study English Language and Linguistics at university. She is the author of four poetry collections: Moonflower, All This Wild Hope, Shades of Sorrow, and When I Fall. She has also written A little sunshine and a little rain, a poetry journal, and Silver Linings, a collection of affirmations and reminders.
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Becca Syme
Becca Syme holds a master’s degree in transformational leadership and has been a success coach (primarily utilizing the Gallup Strengthsfinder®) for almost fifteen years. She’s coached 4,700+ individual authors and creatives through her Write Better-Faster and Strengths for Writers classes & coaching cohorts: six- and seven-figure authors, major award winners, midlisters, and new authors alike. Becca is the host of the YouTube QuitCast channel and a mystery author. She lives in the mountains of Montana.
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Jocelyn Shipley
Born and raised in London, Ontario, Jocelyn graduated from York University and has studied writing at St. Lawrence College and the Humber School for Writers. She always wanted to be a writer, and won her first award at age nine, for poems entered in the local Hobby Fair.
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Jocelyn now lives in Toronto and on Vancouver Island. Her YA novel,How to Tend a Grave, won the 2012 Gold Medal Moonbeam Award for YA Fiction - Mature Issues.
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Christy Ann Martine
Christy Ann Martine's poems have been published in several books, including Gill Education’s Over the Moon: The Wild Explorers, O’Words Anthology, Gamemaster from the Biodome Chronicles book series and Latitudes Inspirations nature photography book. Her poetry has been shared in online magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Country Living, Parade, and Cosmopolitan.
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Celebrities around the world have shared her poetry on their social media accounts, including Julian Lennon, Misha Collins, The Jacksons, Mena Suvari, Good Bones star Mina Starsiak Hawk, actress Amyra Sastur, and TV personality Matt Johnson.
She has been selling her poetry in her Etsy shop since 2014 and has sold over five thousand poems to date.
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Sophie Van Reeth
Sophie Van Reeth (1999) is een Belgische auteur en historica (Universiteit Antwerpen). Ze was twee jaar lang communicatiecoördinator bij PUNT. vzw, waar ze samen met het team campagnes organiseerde zoals Bloom For Change. Ze schrijft geregeld artikels en opiniestukken als freelancer, en is momenteel actief als communicatiespecialist bij het Vlaams Energiebedrijf. Hier maakt ze campagnes over de energietransitie.
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In september 2020 werd haar eerste boek, Genoeg Gezwegen, gepubliceerd. Hierin vertelt ze de verhalen van slachtoffers van seksueel geweld, gepaard met maatschappelijke kritiek omtrent de problematiek.
Eind april 2025 wordt haar tweede boek, liefste ineke, gepubliceerd. Het boek vertelt het verhaal van Ine en Marie, die elkaar ontmo -
Grace Andren
For the past 19 years, Grace Andren has mourned the death of her young daughter, Andrea. It was only through her passion for writing poetry that she was able to express her grief—opening a floodgate of emotions. Joy. Sorrow. Anger. Love.
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Her poetic journey through the grieving process is contained within her book, Speaking In Tears. Through her words, and their black and white photographic representation, she takes the reader from sorrow to hope.
“But moving forward is not letting go because we take our loved ones with us.” —Grace Andren -
Louve -ch
Louve- is a queer author with her debut poetry book released in July 2018, she is now bringing her poetic purple prose to the romantic fantasy world with her debut Dark Romantasy: Awakening of the Starborne (Book one in the series: The Game of Endings and Beginnings.)
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Cheyenne Bluett
I love to write poetry that makes you feel less alone.
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Samantha J. Won
Filipino writer for young adult contemporary and fantasy romance novels featuring predominantly Asian characters, with stories influenced by her love for K-drama, anime, and Studio Ghibli movies.
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Instagram @authorsjwon
Upcoming work(s) fantasy/transmigration ♥️
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Jenni "Jwoww" Farley
Jenni "Jwoww" Farley was twenty-one years old when she moved from rural upstate New York to New York City. Since Jenni was seventeen she was interested in computer programming, and spent 3 years studying it. After fulfilling her desire to be a computer programmer, Jenni realized she had a passion for fine arts and graphic design. Shortly after finishing 4 years of study at a local university she opened her own graphic design business, Jenni Farley Designs Inc.
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In 2010 Jenni partnered with the web development company, "Power Play International Inc," as their marketing director.
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Gwendoline Smith
Gwendoline Smith B Soc Sci, M Soc Sci (hons), Dip Clin Psych is a clinical psychologist, speaker, blogger and the author of the books Depression Explained and Sharing the Load. She also goes by the name Dr Know.
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Aija Mayrock
Aija Mayrock is a 19-year-old girl who experienced bullying firsthand. Instead of letting her experiences break her down, she channeled her positive energy into writing and self-publishing The Survival Guide to Bullying, where she shares the strategies that helped her survive and thrive. Aija writes about how to handle bullying, cyber bullying, dealing with fear, personal safety, and ultimately creating the life that you dream of having. Aija is also an accomplished screenwriter. Her film Diego received a Silver Key from Scholastic’s Art and Writing Awards.
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Autumn Williams
Autumn Williams began writing poetry in 2022, in response to the chronic illness she has, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, worsening to the point that she became almost entirely bedbound. Her poems, while influenced by this experience, are universal. They are written as fiction, and explore such themes as time, loss, and love.
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Clouds on the Ground is her first full-length poetry collection. With vivid natural scenery, and lyrical free-verse style, the book offers an escape into beauty and dreams. It reminds readers that peace can be found even amidst life's storms.
Williams lives in Texas with her husband and their children. She loves spending time with her family, writing and reading poetry, and listening to music.
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Jasmine J.
Jasmine J. is a talented author whose passion for writing has been a lifelong journey. Since early childhood, Jasmine has harnessed the power of words to educate, empower, and uplift others. Her writing serves as a medium to navigate and articulate the complexities of the human experience.
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In her debut poetry book, Life F*cks Me Everyday, Jasmine delves into profound and heavy topics, offering readers a raw and authentic exploration of mental health struggles, trauma, grief, and loss. Her work resonates with those seeking solace and understanding in the face of life's challenges. Armed with a Master of Science in Psychology, Jasmine brings a nuanced perspective to her writing, blending artistic expression with psychological insights.
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Shelby Marie
Hi, I'm Shelby!
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I'm a poet and creative soul from Ontario, Canada.
I write poetry spun with magic and I run my own online boutique.
On social media I share my original poems that I hand type on my antique Underwood typewriter from 1911. These one of a kind pieces can be ordered from my shop or you can join me on Ko-fi to get monthly poetry mail!
I love cats, antique things, and everything that autumn brings. When I'm not writing poetry, you'll often find me curled up with a book or journaling.
I'm grateful that you're here with me. Thank you for taking such great care of the paper pieces of my heart. xo Shelby
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Instagram: @shelbymarie.poetry
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Erica Reid
Erica Reid’s debut collection, Ghost Man on Second, won the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was published by Autumn House Press in early 2024. Erica’s poems appear in Rattle, Birmingham Poetry Review, Colorado Review, and more.
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