Courtney Balestier

• Courtney Balestier has over a decade's experience as a writer, journalist and editorial consultant in the food and culture spaces.
• Her contributions have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Bon Appetit online and Food & Wine.
• Her writing has been anthologized in Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing (UGA Press, 2014) and nominated for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award and a Pushcart Prize. 

Experience

Courtney Balestier has over a decade's experience as a writer, journalist and editorial consultant. Her contributions have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Bon Appetit online and Food & Wine.

Education

Courtney holds a Bachelor's degree in news journalism from West Virginia University and a Master's degree in magazine journalism from New York University

 

About Brides and Dotdash

Brides is part of the Dotdash publishing family. For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the Internet according to comScore, a leading Internet measurement company, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Our brands collectively have won more than 20 industry awards in the last year alone and, most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.