Kirsten Reach

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Location
Columbus, Ohio
School
Kenyon College, Columbia Publishing Course
Expertise
Cake Baking, Recipe Editing, Homemade Broth
  • Kirsten has been a features editor for Mashed since March 2023.
  • Her first food job was as a host and coat checker for the Bobby Flay restaurant Mesa Grill.
  • She and her sister are working to make stone-ground, locally grown flour more widely available to U.S. home bakers.

Experience

Kirsten joined Static Media in 2022 and has edited for Mashed, Mashed Recipes, Chowhound, and more. She has worked as a professional editor since 2008. She started at the Institute for the Future of the Book, a think tank funded by a MacArthur Genius Grant, studying how reading changes from page to screen. She has worked at several publishing houses and foundations. Kirsten started at the Gaea Foundation, providing space and time to artists, writers, and activists (including Bryant Terry), and then the Henry Holt & Company/John Macrae Books, where she worked with a mix of fiction and nonfiction titles (including two 'Man Booker Prize' winners by Hilary Mantel). Later, she worked at Grand Central Publishing with author James Patterson and a focus on commercial fiction. And the Melville House in Brooklyn, NY, where she acquired and edited 14 titles a year. She has also worked as the fiction editor and director of social media for the Kenyon Review. Kirsten founded her own company, Jonquil Editorial, a freelance consulting firm for publishers and writers. Kirsten acquired "The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement" by Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis for Melville House, about the community food center Jamie Oliver called "amazing," and New York Times food writer Mark Bittman called "one of those forward-thinking groups pointing the way to the future of good food." She has also worked on books by authors such as Jane Goodall, Hilary Mantel, Caroline Kennedy, Lynne Truss, and James Patterson.

Education

A graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course and an alumna of Kenyon College, she has worked on a wide range of fiction and nonfiction for magazines and book publishers.

Mashed Editorial Policies

Mashed’s industry-leading coverage is created by qualified and experienced writers, and is reviewed and fact-checked by our editorial team to ensure everything is accurate and timely. Outside experts are also consulted to help deliver factual, up-to-date information.

Our mission is to inform and engage our readers, telling them things they need to know, things they want to know, and things they didn't know they wanted to know about food. We strive to always provide a well-rounded reading experience, whether that’s the news of the day or a new original recipe you can try making at home. In an effort to provide the most comprehensive, current, and accurate content, our editorial team constantly reviews and updates articles as necessary. Additional information on our editorial process available here.

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