Wishbone Team
Leadership
Hollie
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
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hollie@wishbonewords.com
Hollie Bardgett is a 28 year old living in the Lake District, UK. She has a rare bone condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta, has had Scoliosis surgery and is also severely sight impaired.
She graduated in 2021 with a Creative Writing degree and decided to found Wishbone Words. Her life is dedicated to her little girl Elsa, and bringing acceptance, more inclusivity to creativity and awareness for rare conditions and invisible disabilities. She hopes to be published herself someday but is thrilled she is able to give others a home for their brilliance.
Noelle
Managing Editor
she/her
noelle@wishbonewords.com
Noelle is an artist, writer, and content creator living in Pennsylvania, USA. She has been working with Team Wishbone since the summer of 2022.
Please visit her website to view her published pieces.
Noelle lives with various chronic conditions such as Gastroparesis and POTS. She runs an Etsy shop under the name Nowhalle and sells products to raise awareness and acceptance for those who are disabled and/or living with a chronic condition. She makes YouTube videos under the same name. Noelle is a lover of space (both outer and personal), an avid Doctor Who fan, and aspires to own goats one day.
Noelle is a lover of space (both outer and personal), an avid Doctor Who fan, and aspires to own goats one day.
Editing Team
Eli
Head Prose Editor
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Eli is a 24-year old writer, poet, and seamstress from Annapolis, MD, and living in Brooklyn, NY.
She loves writing fantasy and horror about being queer and mentally ill, and is currently working on a novel about weird mermaids.
She is a late-diagnosed Autistic with ADHD and Generalized Anxiety, as well as chronic migraines. Navigating life is a challenge, but one she is getting better at every day.
She is obsessed with Nintendo Games, especially The Legend of Zelda, laughing at bad horror movies, and any crafts that involve a sewing needle.
Carly
Assistant Prose Editor
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Carly is a 23-year-old graduate student at George Washington University and a media enthusiast from Florida. She has spent the last eight years learning to navigate living with POTS, Asthma, Gastroparesis, Food Intolerances, and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder.
She is an avid advocate for disability representation in media. She aspires to work in children’s fiction, where she will bring more disabled voices to the page. She has worked on The Cypress Dome and Imprint Magazine.
Carly is a hobby collector, including crocheting, making trinkets, and fangirl activities. She loves her mini zoo— home to three rats, two cats, three fish, and one leopard gecko.
Dani
Assistant Prose Editor
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Dani is a chronically ill writer living with several diagnoses (dysautonomia, hashimoto’s, and more). She’s been working as an assistant prose editor at Wishbone Words since 2023.
After earning her Master of Arts in Transnational Creative Writing from Stockholm University, she has published several nonfiction pieces, poems and articles in various magazines, both in English and Italian. Her thesis on disability bias signed the beginning of her passionate fight for fair disability representation in the media, which she carries on on her Instagram page.
Being a knowledge seeker, she loves studying languages and cultures, but she’s also unapologetically addicted to Asian dramas and music.
Zoey
Head Poetry Editor
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Zoey (she/her) is a writer from Pennsylvania, USA and graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing program at Long Island University.
She was diagnosed with ADHD in 2021, which made everything up until that point make more sense! When not doing Wishbone business, she is usually playing RPGs/life sims, drawing, picking up a new hobby for the hundredth time, or practicing Dance Dance Revolution. She loves all animals, but especially loves her darling cat, Percy.
Kitty
Assistant Poetry Editor
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Kitty is a neurodivergent writer, writing tutor, editor, and content creator. She lives with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and several comorbid conditions including POTS and endometriosis. Her experience with chronic illness informs the subject matter of her work and has taught her to view communication and self-expression as human rights rather than skills to be mastered. She loves hiking and rockhounding and spends most of her free time reading, exercising, making art and cooking. Lastly, she’s a total cinephile and enjoys every aspect of media production.
Gen
Assistant Poetry Editor
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Gen is a 44 year-old, French Canadian writer who lives in Ontario, Canada. She has been writing since 2021 and has 19 published pieces in various online venues. She has a Bachelors degree in psychology at Concordia University in Montreal. She has earned a certificate in copyediting at Queens University and has been proofreading litmags for 4 years now.
She lives with celiac disease, colitis, rotiscoliosis, and hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Her children also live with hEDS and its commorbidities.
Gen also loves to help writers on their writing journey. She is currently in the revising stage of a YA Adventure novel she hopes to publish next year.
Erin
Assistant Poetry Editor
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Erin is a graduate student by day and a creative writer by night. She is a lifelong (and spooky season obsessed) New Englander living with POTS and hEDS. She is currently writing a paper on crip time as a gothic temporality in Truman Capote’s “Other Voices, Other Rooms.”
Her work has appeared in the Vocal+ Fiction Awards Anthology, Ink and Marrow, The Mersey Review, and ARTWIFE Magazine, among others. She recently received the 2024 Vassar Miller Poetry Award at her university. You can connect with her on Instagram @somebookishrambles
Magazine Design Team
Rohbyn
Head Magazine Designer
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When Rohbyn’s health took a major downturn they began to write poetry in order to come to terms with ‘losing’ themself. Now, 3 years later, living in a little Derbyshire village bungalow (affectionately known as “The Bungy”) Rohbyn is able to begin a process of healing from their diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder, sudden awareness of a Dissociative Disorder, and end of an abusive relationship.
Rohbyn occupies The Bungy with their two tabby cats, has created a meditation room, and is looking forward to starting a future career in magazine design (inspired by Wishbone Words and Scribbles).
Meg
Assistant Designer
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Meg is a 28 year old magical meat skeleton who would prefer to be a red-tailed hawk. She is on a life-long healing journey to learn how to function her sparkly bag of human bones while existing with Bipolar, PTSD, scoliosis, and recently diagnosed Functional Neurological Disorder. Her mantra is “I will control what I can today, because I choose to, regardless.”
Meg lives in a cozy apartment on the coast of Southern Maine, USA with her incredibly supportive wife and their pack of beloved critters: Otis the Jack Russell, and kitties Larry & Redwood. She likes to spend her free time birdwatching, going on adventures with her wife Devyn, playing accessibility-friendly songs on Just Dance, nerding out about history, or swimming in the frigid Atlantic Ocean at all times of year.
Meg studied Fashion Styling and Editorial in San Francisco, CA. She owns a small local business called MainelyWinter Candle Co. where she creates artistic sustainable hand-poured candles as a proudly queer, disabled, and female entrepreneur. Her goals include raising Nigerian dwarf pygmy goats & escaping into the forest to live in a fairy house with a mushroom cap roof.
Web Team
Maggie
Website Manager
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Maggie is from Pennsylvania, USA, where she is an office assistant by day and a speculative fiction writer by night.
She loves to write fantasy stories that subvert expectations and tropes. You can find her writing on her website, Maggie’s Musings.
Maggie has depression, anxiety, and OCD. She is still learning how to manage her mental health, but she hopes that her writing can encourage others who are experiencing similar challenges.
When she isn’t writing, Maggie is either reading, watching anime, co-hosting a podcast, or escaping into video games.
Book Reviewers
Amy
Book Reviewer
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amy@wishbonewords.com
Amy is a 20-something blogger from not so sunny but still quite nice Scotland. She has a progressive genetic condition that produces tumours on her nerve endings, causing a wide range of unpleasant physical symptoms. She’s obsessed with books, animals in general but especially dogs, music, Disney, and rewatching all her comfort shows on a never ending loop, even if she is also watching something new.
Phee
Book Reviewer
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Phee is a 22 year old freelance writer, reviewer, and editor with several chronic illnesses, namely Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. They are also deaf, autistic and a proud lesbian.
She found Wishbone Words through a friend, and came to love the work that they do, inspiring her to work with them themselves and now continues that work with them very proudly and excitedly.
Community Engagement Team
Nina
Social Media Manager
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Nina is a writer and future educator who loves giving her characters her scoliosis and spinal fusion to. Nearly a decade after her spinal fusion, she knows how hard it is to find representation of scoliosis in various media, and hopes to correct that. It’s very rare that she’s not writing, but when she isn’t, she can be found reading, cross-stitching, spending time with her friends, or learning K-Pop dances.
Nina not only hopes to become a published author of young adult novels, but she hopes those who read them find themselves in her characters or the stories.
Rae
Graphic Designer
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Rae is 35, from the south east UK and lives with multiple disorders and disabilities including FND, hEDS, PoTS, prolapsed bowel and mental health issues
She is a disabled mother and wife who spends her time advocating for disability accessibility, inclusion & awareness. Her passions and hobbies include art, fashion, and making metal free jewellery. Rae also writes her own blog My Unwired World (www.unwireddesigner.wordpress.com) where she shares her personal thoughts, opinions, and life with chronic illnesses, disorders, and disabilities.
She has a particular love for bright colours, which is shown by her hair colour, her mobility aids and her fashion style.