Katherine Martinelli

Katherine Martinelli is an award-winning freelance journalist from New York City who now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has over 12 years of experience writing about food, travel, and parenting and developing original recipes for multiple online brands and national publications.

Highlights:
-Nationally published author and photographer
-Ghostwriter, editor, and photographer of an award-winning Israeli cookbook
-Recipe and content contributor at multiple national publications and brands

Experience: Katherine Martinelli is an award-winning freelance journalist with over 12 years of experience writing about food, travel, parenting, and real estate. In her work, Katherine is committed to centering marginalized voices, challenging common conceptions and institutions, and finding interesting stories in unusual places.

Katherine's writing has appeared in national publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Food & Wine, and Martha Stewart Living, among others. She also develops original recipes for multiple online brands and publications, including Serious Eats, EatingWell, Mealthy, The Forward, The Joy of Kosher, and more. In addition to being both author and photographer of her book, Puff Pastry at Brunch, Katherine ghostwrote, edited, and photographed the award-winning Cook in Israel: Home Cooking Inspiration, by Israeli chef Orly Ziv.

Katherine credits her love of food and cooking to her father, who cooked dinner in their cramped New York City kitchen every night.

Education: Katherine graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts in history and South Asian studies from Skidmore College in New York. She then went on to receive her master of arts in international educational development from Teachers College Columbia University in New York. While there, she was editor-in-chief of the 2007 Journal for the Society of International Education.