Lives In
Pittsburg, PA
Education
- New York University
- West Virginia University
Expertise
- Food & Culture
- 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.