About

Jennifer Justus is an editor at Wildsam. She writes about food, travel and culture. Jennifer's journalism career began in newspapers such as The Tennessean in Nashville, where she worked as food culture reporter for several years before embarking on a freelance career that led to work in TIME, Rolling Stone Country, The Bitter Southerner, Food52, Southern Living, Garden & Gun, and more. She taught journalism as an adjunct instructor at Middle Tennessee State University, led food tours with Walk Eat Nashville and served as a culinary community liaison and storyteller with The Nashville Food Project, a nonprofit working for food justice through community gardens and shared meals. She's co-founder of the recipe storytelling project Dirty Pages, which has stewarded three photo exhibits (the first of which lives at the Southern Food & Drink Museum in New Orleans) as well as projects in conjunction with the Nashville Public Library and a column with The Local Palate magazine. She's written two books including Nashville Eats (Abrams, 2015) and has edited four Wildsam field guides. She has a newsletter called The Grace Before Dinner and splits her time between Atlanta, Georgia, and St. Petersburg, Florida.