About

An example of the early twenty-first century maladjusted urbanite, I’m a jack-mormon suburban girl, poet and wine-lover who got out and gypsied it for a while (in order)—Spokane, Utah, Hawaii, Utah, Davis, London, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, Glasgow, Houston, Edinburgh, Houston, Spokane, Yakima, Seattle, next?

I discovered the joys of wine late in life (didn’t drink a drop until age 22), and now thoughts of wine—how it’s made, how it tastes, how it affects culture—fill my days. Wine and poetry go together, natch, and in this case, the poetry came first, when my father made up Dr. Seuss-like rhymes and encouraged me to recite them standing on the fireplace hearth on those long Spokane Sunday afternoons. But then it got out of hand, and I ended up getting a PhD in poetry and english literature in Houston, published a book of poems, Corset, in 2005 and started writing about wine for Seattle magazine in 2007. I have another book coming out in fall of 2008, Chefs on the Farm: Inspired Recipes and Lessons from the Quillisascut Farm School of the Domestic Arts, which chronicles the lives of two amazing farmers and goat cheese artisans, Rick and Lora Lea Mistery, who have a farm in eastern Washington and welcome chefs from all over to come and experience where their food comes from. I live in Seattle now and love the city’s food and wine scene—and I love music – gypsy jazz, old time, swing and Texas two-step, and go dancing whenever there’s a band I dig, which lately, in Ballard, isn’t enough, but still…