What do you do for a living?
I am the publisher of Kitchen Table, a food magazine that I’ve been publishing annually for seven years. My background is in publishing (twenty years in comic books) and food service.
I’m still learning the business side of things. To make ends meet, I also wait tables and bartend at a hotel restaurant here in Portland, Oregon.
What does this mean day-to-day?
When we’re in production mode, it means lots of work curating the content for the new issue, contacting creating, wrangling creators, working with printers, and figuring out marketing.
Otherwise, I’m planning events, studying and learning how to business, and of course, waiting and bartending.
What do you love about magazines?
What is not to love? A print object you can hold in your hands, take to a restaurant or a bar, and get lost in something tactile. The smell of the ink and paper, flipping through the pages, revisiting articles.
Tell us one thing not many people know about you?
I’m an introverted extrovert.