About

Kirsten Reach writes about the intersection between local communities and what they eat. She has written for the Kenyon Alumni Magazine, Columbus Monthly, and edited for Mashed, Mashed Recipes, and Chowhound. She has served as the fiction editor and director of social media for the Kenyon Review. Now she runs Jonquil Editorial and serves on the board of CMDC, managing community partnerships. (At the time of writing, they just raised $1,000 for the Mid-Ohio Food Collective!)

Kirsten acquired The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis for Melville House, about the community food center Jamie Oliver called "amazing," and New York Times food writer Mark Bittman called "one of those forward-thinking groups pointing the way to the future of good food." She has also worked on books by authors such as Jane Goodall, Hilary Mantel, Caroline Kennedy, Lynne Truss, and James Patterson.

Contact her for writing possibilities at kirsten [at] jonquileditorial [dot] com.

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