Hannah: @hannahkatyb

Hannah K. Brencher began writing love letters to strangers on the New York City 4 train in October 2010. After becoming mildly obsessed with planting love letters all over the city, she extended the offer of love letters out into the world wide web and began writing love letters to people she will probably never meet. Recently featured in the Wall Street Journal for snail mailing nearly 400 love letters, Hannah decided to extend her recipe for love letter writing out into the world and MoreLoveLetters.com was born.

Hannah is on a daily mission to first dance somewhere in the middle of this quotation, and then learn to live it out loud: I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.  She fell in love with writing at too young of an age, see proof here. She can be reached at hannah@moreloveletters.com.

Becky: @loveverydaylife

Becky has been writing letters since she was seven years old, collecting penpals instead of toys, and gaining life-long friendships along the way. While she loves technology and all that email can provide, she’s at her happiest when putting pen to paper. She knows that life is about the little moments, which is why she leaves love letters in everyday places – she hopes a letter will cheer up someone’s trip into work, or make errand-running a little bit brighter.

With a penchant for details, she happily jumped to work with Hannah as the love letter coordinator, working behind-the-scenes, trying to push the envelope (no pun intended!) by always looking for the next step, and of course, writing letters.

Ever wonder who’s behind the letter requests? Well we can assure you, we’ve searched the world and pinned the finest love letter writers around. Meet the individuals who script the letters we mail out every single week.

Yours truly, Kerry Rose: @kerryrosed

Kerry Rose will capture you with just one stroke of the pen, we are so sure of it. Seriously, she’s no amateur at this: ” With each love letter that pours out of you, I suggest you take your own words and turn them right back around to yourself: have you loved your own self today? With each word you send out, doused with love and hope, to a stranger, you’re learning to love yourself.” She’s the kind of girl who pins her heart to prose and will surely pin herself to your love letter request. On board since the beginning of this love letter project, Kerry Rose has had plenty of time to come up with some solid love letter writing tips: ” When it comes to writing the letters, I like to keep it simple, folks. A piece of colored stationary (light purple has been my go-to) tucked neatly inside a white envelope, with a catchy “open me!” phrase penned on the front. We each have our own style, and mine tends to be the sweet & simple kind, with a flare added here and there.”

Best, Natasha: @natashahollerup

Natasha discovered founder Hannah Katy at the 365 letter mark and has held onto the mission of MoreLoveLetters ever since. She is currently studying liberal arts and happily married to her “dorky soul mate of three years.” Natasha is a fan of encouraging others to write their own love letters, especially when they are at their lowest low. A proclaimed stationery guru, Natasha is still on the lookout for that “steal your heart” stationery but is a fan of Erin Condren. Her favorite spot the leave a love letter? “The bus. There are always people getting on and some of those people may be down on their luck and need a little bit of inspiration or encouragement.”

XOXOX, Anita: @anitakc

Anita is taking on her first “big girl job” and plenty of your love letter requests. A 20-something with a massive bucket list to tackle, she loves the rewarding feeling that rises out of spreading joy through words and stationery. “I know how it feels to get a love letter in the mail, and I love being able to share that with people.” No amateur to matters of stationery, Anita dishes a few tips for anyone wanting to know where to start: “Write from the heart and let it flow! Target has affordable packs of cards with fun patterns and you can never go wrong with Etsy!” Intentional with her love letter writing, Anita hopes her letters will remind someone who needs to know that they are strong, courageous and capable of pushing their dreams into reality.

Truly yours, Brittany: @heybrtny

You might find this Chi-town lover leaving her letters on the “L” train. “I see a lot of people, different people, in those train cars every day and sometimes you just know that one of those people could use one of your letters.” A student at the University of Illinois, Brittney splits her time between vampire slaying and blogging but is ready to add “giving back to the world” into the mix: “I want to make someone feel significant; to know they aren’t forgotten. Even more simply, I want someone to delight in the fact that they found something out of the ordinary.”

Always, Annie: @grlfrmmars

A university graduate but one of life’s permanent students, Annie comes to the Love Letters team after being inspired by all the action in the Twitter”sphere.” She is a big-time believer in the ripple effect and her tip to anyone out there writing a love letter is to “be real and speak to what you know. It means the world to hear from someone who’s been there.” Annie adores leaving letters in the places people frequent everyday: bus stops, morning coffee joints and the places that hold textbooks and long hours of studying.

Love, Joelle: @therealpretend

Joelle is no stranger to leaving anonymous notes so it is only fitting that she’d come join us on the Love Letters Team. She loves decorating cupcakes, creating ridiculous detective stories, and looking for beautiful paper at the Craft Warehouse. Joelle is just too good with her own words to not tell you the rest of her story: “In my letters, I usually write things that I wish someone would have written to me. That bit of inspiration I needed, or that seed of hope in a barren field—that’s what I want to give people who discover my words. When I write, I first write from the heart and just get out my initial thoughts. Then I go back and really think about the way I want to word sentences. Every person is worth a second draft. I want you to know that I take time for you, and I spend time thinking about what I say.” Find more of Joelle on her blog!

 Light & Love, Beth: @habakkuk318

Beth loves green tea ice cream, chai’s and of, course: love letters. Known to leave letters in various Starbucks, Beth is most inspired to write after people watching. “I love people and am usually very aware of the strangers around me, which I think is rare. The idea of planting little land mines of love for people to stumble upon is absolutely incredible to me.” A fan of a world with more questions than answers, Beth hopes her letters might stir those unanswerable gems inside of people. She offers some amazing advice to anyone picking up the pen for the first time, unsure of what to write down: “The fact of the matter is that you don’t know the life or situation of the person that will find it. Maybe you will strike some sort of deep resounding chord with them, maybe not. If they don’t feel it, they may leave it for the next person. For me, the point isn’t to do something epic and change the world and every person in it – it is to just put a little more love in it.”

Warm Regards, Heather: @yesthatgirl

A belly dancer, singer, musician, songwriter, coffee & book addict and now, a love letter writer. Heather will be the first to tell you that it doesn’t matter where you think to leave a love letter, it’s the hope that someone who needs it will be the one to pick it up that matters most. Armed with a serious load of colorful cardstock, Heather knows how to script it best: “Write from the heart but don’t get too mushy or serious. Be real. Be honest.”

P.S., Marie: @chocoandwine

A lifelong dancer, blogger, cook and current grad student/gym rat, Marie joined the Love Letters team after meeting Hannah in college and finding the joy of making other people happy with her words.  Receiving a love letter of her own from More Love Letters  inspired her to hone her passion for writing to make a difference in someone else’s life.  ”When I got my letter, I cried.  The fact that a total stranger could have so much love for me was incredible.  I wanted to give that love to someone else.”

Until Next Time, Bailey: @BBxtRaordinary

College student by day and letter writer at night, Bailey joins our team with every bit of writing experience there is: from pen pals to thank you notes. “But what really makes me qualified to be a love letter writer is that I find incredible joy in spilling my heart out into something that people can physically hold on to. I find so much satisfaction and happiness in making others feel appreciated.” A lover of traveling, yoga, lattes and “How I Met Your Mother,” Bailey believes in the words she writes to others, ” A simple word can change a life, can change the world.”

Love from the Big City, Karen: @SincerelyKarrie

The kind of heart-on-sleever that we so adore here, Karen packs life, love and healing words into all her love letters. Growing up with an adoration for stationery, she is no stranger to the love letter. ” As I grew up, I realized that the “love letter” did not have to be purely from a boy to a girl, but it could just be between friends who haven’t seen each other for months, or a way to get something off my chest when I couldn’t say it in person.” A resident of New York City, Karen plans on sprinkling love all across the Big Apple. “I definitely know that many living in New York City could always use the moral boost!”