Hire the Best Writers in Chicago, IL

Experienced op-ed writer, published in several newspapers including Chicago Tribune, Detroit News. Researcher and writer on labor and employment topics.

Most recently, I finished a two-year contract as a Multimedia Journalist at a CBS-affiliate T.V. News team in the South Bend Market, WSBT-TV. In this role I arranged interviews with elected state and local officials, local non-profits, educators and local activists in order to write informed stories relevant to the Northern Indiana community. I pitched, wrote, interviewed and presented full package reports every day during our live morning broadcast, a four-hour show. I delivered on stories around local changes in higher education and k-12 school changes. I also presented feature stories of local inventors finding national success, small businesses adjusting to a fluctuating economy, and community service organizations working to resolve food insecurity. I have developed video treatments and production strategies for universities, non-profit organizations, businesses, and independent content creators. From helping you write your ideas in video format to capturing the vision on camera and editing everything in post-production, I am a creative, diligent choice. Whether you have an exact vision for what you want, or you need help formatting your ideas for visual storytelling, I can be your partner the whole way through. I can help with interviews, personal narratives, product marketing, video updates that update your audience, comedy sketches, voice-over production, and promotional video writing, directing, editing, and producing. I am also a content writer for speeches, letters, and video content. I was the opinions editor for a university journal in which I operated a monthly column entitled Words for the Weary. I am looking forward to seeing how my partnership can support your project. Be well.

I’m a brand identity designer who builds cohesive, story‑driven visual systems for small businesses, creatives, and early‑stage studios. My work blends aesthetic direction, narrative clarity, and practical brand structure, giving you a brand that feels intentional, aligned, and easy to use. I specialize in: • Visual identity systems • Brand kits + style foundations • Aesthetic direction • Presentation + deck design • Social media design I build brands that are coherent, elevated, and rooted in meaning, visual systems developed with clarity, ease, and story. If you’re looking for a visual identity with clarity, narrative logic, and aesthetic direction, I’d love to work together. My process is collaborative, structured, and built to empower you to make confident creative decisions.

I help students craft thoughtful, specific, and compelling college application essays — including Common App personal statements, supplemental essays, UC PIQs, transfer essays, activity descriptions, and graduate school statements of purpose. I currently work with College Essay Guy, one of the leading U.S.-based college admissions services and one of the most prominent online resources for college essay help. Through that work and my private admissions coaching, I help students move from scattered ideas to polished essays that feel authentic, mature, and memorable. Recent student admissions outcomes include: Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Yale, and other highly selective universities. I can help with: • Common App personal statements • Supplemental college essays • UC Personal Insight Questions • Activity lists and honors sections • Transfer essays • Graduate school statements of purpose • Medical school personal statements • Essay brainstorming • Topic selection • Structural revision • Line editing and final polish • Parent/student strategy consultations My coaching is built around one central belief: the best admissions essays are not simply well-written. They are well-discovered. Many students begin with topics that are too broad, too résumé-like, too abstract, or too familiar. I help students identify the deeper story underneath the surface: the values, tensions, relationships, intellectual interests, turning points, and patterns of growth that make an essay feel personal rather than generic. Then I help shape that material into a clear, engaging structure. Depending on where the student is in the process, I can help with: • Finding a strong essay topic • Choosing between multiple possible topics • Building a personal narrative across the application • Making supplements school-specific • Revising essays that feel flat or generic • Preserving the student’s natural voice • Strengthening openings and endings • Cutting word count without losing meaning • Making essays more reflective, specific, and memorable My background combines admissions coaching, academic writing instruction, and graduate training from the University of Chicago. I have worked with U.S. and international students across high school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional school contexts, and I am especially strong with students who are intellectually curious, interdisciplinary, reflective, or unsure how to translate their experiences into a coherent story. Students and families usually come to me when they need more than grammar correction. They need someone who can ask the right questions, see the hidden structure in a student’s experiences, and help turn raw material into essays that feel honest, polished, and strategically effective. Whether you need help with one Common App essay or a full application package, I can help you build essays that sound like you — only clearer, sharper, and more complete.

I am an award-winning writer whose work has appeared traditionally published anthologies and top tier magazines. I now proudly provide ghostwriting, publishing, writing coaching, and publishing consulting services. My clients include Fortune 500 executive coaches and consultants, Inc. 5000 CEOs and founders, household name celebrities, regular contributors to top-of-industry websites like Forbes and KevinMD, small business owners, and ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. While I provide services to CEOs and celebrities, I also strive to keep my services accessible to small businesses and ordinary people. My prices for full book production including ghostwriting and publishing range from $3,000-$10,000, and I believe based on years of working with various publishers that my services are the best in my accessible price range. I know that everyone has at least one book in them, and personal and family memoirs are near and dear to my heart. My most unique background as a writer is that I also have a strong background in science and medicine, including five years' experience coordinating clinical research and a B. S. in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan. I have assisted physician-scientists, physician-entrepreneurs, healthcare companies, and biohackers with publicity and educational books for this reason.

JD Vines is a multi-talented, award-winning, published writer, working as a full-time freelance book, screenplay and content writer. He writes under his own name, pen name, and as a ghostwriter. JD has written over thirty books and a dozen award-winning screenplays. His books are primarily non-fiction narratives in the biographic and health genres. He also writes novels. His screenplays include sitcoms, period dramas and features based on real people and real events. His published titles include: "The Darkness within Prison Walls" "The Afghanistan Tragedy" "Intermittent Fasting for Life" "Anxiety and the Whole Person" "Shabd Yoga and Sant Mat" "Governor John Stelle - Father of the GI Bill" "Bibb and the Candyman" "Boat People Love Story" "Melrose Bleak" "Enlightened Seasonal Juicing Recipe Book" "The Ancient Origins of Shiv Yoga" "Tales From the Trails - Hike to a Better World" "The African American Inventors Hall of Fame" "In Love and War" Content-wise, he has established himself as an authority in the areas of dietary supplements, nutrition, and natural health. As a life-long religious scholar, he also writes on world religion, psychology and philosophy. He is especially knowledgeable in the following areas: --Natural Health and Dietary Food Supplements --World Religion, Psychology and Philosophy --Meditation and Yoga --Massage, Bodywork, and Natural Healing --Market Research and General Research --Real Estate and Entrepreneurship