Kelly Alexander
Kelly Alexander is a writer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the author of the critically acclaimed biography Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate (Gotham 2008). For many years she was a senior editor at Saveur magazine, where she wrote numerous feature stories. In 2003, her article "Hometown Appetites," an in-depth homage to the writer Clementine Paddleford, won the James Beard Journalism Award. Prior to joining Saveur, Alexander worked as the restaurant editor of Microsoft's New York Sidewalk and as an assistant editor at Food & Wine magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Gourmet, the New Republic, New York, Slate, Real Simple, Travel + Leisure, Newsweek and many other publications. Her story "Multicultural Meat," about the cross-cultural significance of brisket, was nominated for a Bert Greene Award for Food Journalism from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Currently, Alexander teaches a food writing course at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She can also be heard frequently on NPR stations around the country and especially on "The State of Things," which airs daily on WUNC, North Carolina Public Radio. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
