Award-winning author and writer Lucy Burningham has been working as a journalist for the past twelve years. She covers travel, food, and craft beer for a variety of magazines, newspapers, and guidebooks. Her work has appeared in Sunset, Imbibe, Outside, Men's Journal, VIA, Edible Portland and Beer Northwest, as well as The New York Times, The Oregonian, and The Los Angeles Times. She has contributed to Lonely Planet guidebooks to the Pacific Northwest, USA, and Ecuador.

Lucy lives in Portland, Oregon, speaks Spanish, brews her own beer, travels by bicycle as much as possible, and enjoys foraging for truffles and mushrooms. She holds a master's degree in nonfiction writing from Portland State University and is represented by the New York-based Tessler Literary Agency.