I’m a writer, editor, artist, and adviser.

I was academically trained in studio art and art history, and after graduating from Dartmouth with a degree in Visual Studies, I soon took gigs in technical start-ups, and hand-rolled my first website in 1993. As the web evolved so did I, and I’ve worked as digital strategist leading teams to design products for e-commerce, collaboration, research, marketing, communications, social media, and more.

Soon I completed a Master’s in Liberal Studies – Creative Writing, also at Dartmouth. My métier was creative nonfiction and my thesis manuscript was a memoir, and I also began writing about gastronomy. That led to additional work as wine writer, editor, and publication strategist, and to invitations to travel to research wine regions and their traditions.

I publish Maker’s Table, a commingling of my writing on nature, culture, food, wine, and place with reflections on the creative process itself, the praxis and poetics of visual and narrative storytelling. Subscribe below.

I live in rural New England, and for decades have maintained a large backyard vegetable garden. Growing my family’s food brings me closer to both nature and culture, makes me feel powerful and small at the same time. It’s also a delicious practice. When I first started gardening, I realized I wanted to learn more about life sciences, so I took additional Dartmouth courses in botany, plant science, ecology, evolution, and plant physiology.

That foundation has been invaluable to my writing about wine, food, and the problems farmers face trying to coax sustenance, and beauty, from the land. I travel often to do research in wine regions and understand wine and wine culture. As current Chair of the international Circle of Wine Writers, I support a diverse global membership of professional wine and spirits communicators.

A few years ago I restarted my fine art practice, working principally in oil, later adding digital media. I’ve since exhibited and sold paintings and also collaborated on illustration commissions, and have produced long visual essays that mingle text and imagery.

My current wine research interests include considerations of how wine writing’s established lexicons affect wine education and criticism, and how we might diversify, personalize, and decolonize wine language. I’m also pursuing questions of wine through the lenses of traditionalism, modernism, and postmodernism, and how and the current re-thinking of wine’s aesthetics, as evinced principally through natural wine ideology, gestures toward metamodernism.

Some other things I do and love, in no particular order: birds, photography, bird photography, reading, speaking, teaching, and solving hard problems.