Hannah Selinger
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With over 15 years' experience in the field, Hannah covers divergent beats, including food, wine, travel, politics, lifestyle, real estate, and parenting. Available for content-writing, recipe-writing and development,
pitch-workshopping, product reviews, and writer-coaching, her high-level print and digital content has appeared in a broad spectrum of notable national
and international publications, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure, and The Wall Street Journal. A Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers and a graduate of the International Culinary Center, Hannah is a 2022 James Beard Award finalist for the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, was a 2020 IACP Award finalist in the category of Narrative Beverage Writing With or Without Recipes and a 2022 IACP Award finalist in the category of Narrative Beverage Writing With Recipes. Her 2021 Bon Appétit essay, “In My Childhood Kitchen, I Learned Both Fear and Love,” appears in the 2022 Best American Food Writing anthology, edited by Sohla El-Waylly. Hannah has traveled to 25 countries and currently lives in Boxford, Massachusetts and East Hampton, New York with her husband, two sons, two dogs, and one Russian tortoise. Find her on X @hannahselinger, and on Instagram @druishamericanprincess, where she is verified with a blue check that she did not pay for.
Hannah is represented by Rick Richter and Caroline Marsiglia at Aevitas Creative Management. Her memoir, Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly, edited by Vivian Lee, will be published by Little, Brown in 2025.
Buy her book, Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly, on pre-sale now, at Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and LibroFM.
pitch-workshopping, product reviews, and writer-coaching, her high-level print and digital content has appeared in a broad spectrum of notable national
and international publications, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure, and The Wall Street Journal. A Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers and a graduate of the International Culinary Center, Hannah is a 2022 James Beard Award finalist for the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, was a 2020 IACP Award finalist in the category of Narrative Beverage Writing With or Without Recipes and a 2022 IACP Award finalist in the category of Narrative Beverage Writing With Recipes. Her 2021 Bon Appétit essay, “In My Childhood Kitchen, I Learned Both Fear and Love,” appears in the 2022 Best American Food Writing anthology, edited by Sohla El-Waylly. Hannah has traveled to 25 countries and currently lives in Boxford, Massachusetts and East Hampton, New York with her husband, two sons, two dogs, and one Russian tortoise. Find her on X @hannahselinger, and on Instagram @druishamericanprincess, where she is verified with a blue check that she did not pay for.
Hannah is represented by Rick Richter and Caroline Marsiglia at Aevitas Creative Management. Her memoir, Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly, edited by Vivian Lee, will be published by Little, Brown in 2025.
Buy her book, Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly, on pre-sale now, at Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and LibroFM.
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