The Belladonna is a comedy and satire site by women and marginalized genders for everyone. Because we aren't funny. We're hilarious. 🌺💉
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Actress. Author. Producer.
Writer. Editor. Coach. Mother.
Learn how to enjoy the creative process, so you can keep going even when life is 🍌🍌🍌!
Find critiques, coaching, and a warm community at helloheidifiedler.com.
Writer, runner, dog person • Words in New Yorker, McSweeney's, Electric Lit, etc. • Humor Editor at The Museum of Americana lit review • Fiction judge at NYCMidnight • Sometimes funny, often tired
suedgelber.com
Funny writer of fiction and satire. INSIDE JOKES: A COMEDY AND CREATIVITY GUIDE FOR ALL WRITERS out March 10, 2026.
My newsletter on our creative wells: https://inputandoutput.substack.com/
Author of CAMOUFLAGE (Post Hill Press, Oct 2025). Bylines: NYT, WashPo, TODAY, HuffPost, Newsweek, Business Insider, Good Housekeeping, Next Avenue, Brevity, etc.
Pre-order CAMOUFLAGE: http://posthill.to/B0F316HJTD/
Independent journalist, content marketing writer and strategic consultant.
~Pubs: NYT, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Consumer Reports, Forbes
www.alexandra-frost.com
Writer, Texan. Pulitzer Center Grantee. Always looking for a story.
Writer, humorist, upcycled doll artist—not necessarily in that order. Find me on McSweeneys, Hippocampus Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, The Washington Post, Dynamite Magazine, and more. kathrynleehane.com
Humor writer and author of a humorous advice book for introverted parents. Words in New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and my phone’s notes app.
Substack with funny stuff and writing tips:
https://julievick.substack.com/
Writer, Family Historian, Chasing the Family Bones, Superior Parallel Parker
Essayist, memoirist, author of “Ketchup is My Favorite Vegetable: A Family Grows Up with Autism.” Bylines in NY Times, WashPo, The Cut. Cat wrangler, Oxford comma enthusiast. #ASJA #AuthorsGuild #Binders
Award-winning writer at Travel + Leisure, Forbes, USA Today 10Best, Yahoo. Proud Democrat. Senior Swiftie. Book lover. Chipotle loyalist.
Author of 12 novels, working on Lucky 13 👩💻
Bestselling author of ten novels. THE INSOMNIACS coming in 2026. Not aspiring to be humble.
Writer w/work in nytimes, washingtonpost, newsweek, huffpost, salon, today show, brevity, rep’d folioliterary & foliojr. THE BLUE DRESS, coming on March 24, 2026.
Writer, mama, American dreamer in despair. Fighting the good fight with words in The NYT, The Guardian, WaPo, Huff Post, Salon, Vogue, etc.
Drove The World's Longest Road. Resides in Spain. Huge crush on FDR. Votes BLUE 💙
Born + raised in L.A
I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
author of First Love and Negative Space
Author of KNOCKED DOWN: A HIGH RISK MEMOIR. Health, Lifestyle, and Travel Journalist. Words in Wash Po, AARP, Oprah Daily, BBC. One half of witchesofpitches.com
Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
Critically acclaimed writer. Books include Twentynine Palms (praised by Hunter S. Thompson as "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer") and Blood Brothers (starred Kirkus, Newsweek excerpt, praised by Doug Brinkley, Thomas Powers).
Weather, climate, writing, #scicomm, teaching, LIW, history, sports, wagering, equity. Author of WILDER WEATHER, published by SDHS Press. Nebraska/Midwest/Michigan. She/her. #binders #amwriting
writer—mostly flash. mother. owner of too many notebooks.
Flash reader at Hippocampus Literary Magazine
Author, I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy. Backbeat/Bloomsbury. Words in NYT, WaPo, Salon, +others. Pushcart nominee. Best American Essays HM. Detroiter, rocker, mom, widow.
Author/Essayist/Teacher
www.katewalter.com
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Writer of creative nonfiction, memoir, and short stories.
Primary care doctor, professor of medicine, critical medical humanities, flute player, writer (bylines include NEJM, Slate, NYT, Atlantic).
www.annareisman.com
Writer, editor, New Yorker, https://sofia-perez.com // Words in BBC Travel, CNTraveler, Forbes, LitHub, Saveur, Travel+Leisure // ‘24 Sustainability Award (for Spain reporting), ‘23 ASJA Writing Awards Finalist // Beats: food/drink, travel, art, eco-issues
TEDx Speaker. Author, WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED. NYU writing prof. Contrib. Editor, Writer’s Digest. Freelance Writing Direct podcast host. Award-winning journalist with bylines in The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate + https://EstelleSErasmus.com
Writer, editor, content marketer.
Former Brooklynite now living in Upstate NY.
#woolfer
Award-eligible writer. Recent escapee from that incel-sodden catastrophe cluster that is X. Words in Stonecoast Review, Wooden Boat, Belladonna Comedy, Medium, others. Rock n roll singer.
Essayist. Memoirist. Creative writing professor. Wife. Mom. Native New Yorker. She/her. Award-winning publications include NY Times, WashPo, The Cut, McSweeney’s, AARP, and anthologies.
Author of blended holiday picture books, upmarket fiction and paranormal romance. And a frequent contributor to AARP, where I write about the humorous side of life.
I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.
Writer. Overthinker. Dogs, Music, Books & Sometimes People. she/her
✍🏼 estrangement, found family, motherhood
MAP OF A HEART about ❤️s (medical & metaphorical)VineLeavesPress '26 Website www.jacquegorelick.com
No, YOU Tell It! storytellers work together to develop true tales on the page, then swap stories to embody their partner’s culture, identity, and life experience on stage.
Visit noyoutellit.com for more info and to listen to our podcast.
Writer. Book Coach. Teacher. Binder. Essays in The Manifest Station, Hippocampus, Brevity Blog, The Independent, Hazlitt, MicroLit Almanac. https://linktr.ee/suerepko
Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
Books Essays Palaver 📚 Momma May Be Mad (forthcoming 2025), Necessary Lies, & Remember To Forget Me. PhD
@Fulbright_Eire 🌊 NYer↪️GA but ❤️ ↪️ Luimneach🇮🇪
Writing/Social Impact/Public Health/Resistance from my perch in rocky coastal Maine. #amediting. Just migrated from X
Writer. Photographer. Journalist. Covering science, nature, Hawaii, life. Bylines in NatGeo, SmithsonianMag, AudubonMag; prose (CNF and fiction) in Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere.
Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.social |
Writer/Los Angeles
PhD English/CW
author of WHAT HAPPENED TO PAULA: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood (W.W.Norton); words in New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere; mother; gardener; teacher; woman
Writer and editor in Doylestown, Pa.
Royal history dork. Corpse flower groupie. A 21-year-old cat's snack bitch. Em-dashes 4 lyfe!
Published by @nytimes @washingtonpost @mentalfloss @penngazette, among many others. Read my work at samanthadrake.com.
Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship—Top 1% charted podcast | Writing about friendship since 2014 | Quoted in WSJ, WashPost, Guardian, TIME, etc.
https://linktr.ee/ninabadzin
📍Minneapolis
New York Times bestselling author of WOMEN IN WHITE COATS and SISTERS IN SCIENCE. Editor, Everyday Health. Regular contributor, NatGeo. Journalist. Essayist. Feminist. Mom. Lover of cats, books, baking, tea, & thrifting
Writer - HALF-LIFE OF A SECRET from @KentuckyPress. Words in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Catapult, Guernica, Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and others. Professor of the Practice at Tufts University. www.emilystrasser.com
English teacher, new mom, EIC of Fast Flesh Literary Journal, and author of Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This in August.
Freelance manuscript editor & writer keeping a human touch to help authors tell important stories. Copyediting, copywriting, developmental editing, proofreading, sensitivity reading & more. Current Authors Guild, AAUW, AWP & EFA member. Say NO to Facism. 💙
Author of Faith Ed, Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance. Independent Journalist, formerly of Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News. @medillschool alumna; @FellowsSpencer; @theopedproject #skatermom of ice dancer. I'm not the NPR Linda
