Edible Vineyard

Jessica B. Harris

is the author of The Martha’s Vineyard Table and eight other critically acclaimed cookbooks. Her book on Caribbean cocktails will be published in 2009.

Elissa Lash

has written for Cape Cod Life, The Vineyard Times, and Martha’s Vineyard Style. She is currently at work on a novel.

Nina Carelli

studies illustration at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan while living and working in Brooklyn. Born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard, Nina graduated from the Regional High School in 2006.

Ali Berlow

is the founding editor for edibleVineyard. A longtime food essayist for NPR—her “A Cooks Notebook” can still be found at http://www.cooksnotebook.com—and founding Executive Director of Island Grown Initiative, Ali is deeply and passionately committed to food + raising consciousness about the food that we feed to our families. Ali has been a guest on Open Source with Christopher Lydon and she’s appeared in The Boston Globe, Yankee Magazine, Vineyard Style and PLUM TV. She’s contributed to Edible Cape Cod, Vineyard Gazette, Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, Cape Cod Life, Cape Cod Home, Martha’s Vineyard Life, Nantucket Life magazines and Local Table. She is the winner of the 2004 Tyson Fellowship for Culinary Writing awarded by the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Tony Rosenfeld

is the author of 150 Things to Make with Roast Chicken (Taunton Press, 2007) and is a contributing editor to Fine Cooking magazine. He is co-founder and the food guy at b.good restaurants in Boston.

Julia Rappaport

is a freelance writer and former Vineyard Gazette reporter who writes about agriculture and sustainability. She now lives in Boston and is the Assistant Arts and Lifestyle Editor for the Boston Herald.

Lilly K. Morris

grew up sailing on the Vineyard. After high school, she traveled the oceans, teaching kids how to sail schooners. She has recently returned to the Island, where she works as a massage therapist, gardener, and artist.

John Abrams

is the co-founder and president of South Mountain Company, and the author of Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and The Business of Community and Place.

Christine Conley

completed her MS in Environmental Education from Lesley University’s Audubon Expedition Institute in the Spring of ’08. She is the Advertising Coordinator for Edible Vineyard.

Geraldine Brooks

is a novelist who washed ashore on the Vineyard about four years ago. A former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in the Mideast, Africa, and the Balkans, she lives in Tisbury with her husband, two sons, and three dogs. Her most recent novel is People of the Book.

Christopher Schlesinger

is the co-founder of East Coast Grill in Cambridge, Mass. Chris is a grill master, and the author of numerous cookbooks including The Thrill of the Grill: Techniques, Recipes, & Down-Home Barbecue (William Morrow Cookbooks, 1990).

Susie Middleton

is the Consulting Editor for edibleVineyard. The former Editor and current Editor-at-Large for Fine Cooking magazine, Susie’s first cookbook, Fast, Fresh & Green, will be published by Chronicle Books in March, 2010.

Fae Kontje-Gibbs

has called Martha’s Vineyard “home” since 1973. The Island has been the ground for her as artist, writer, mother, grandmother, teacher, yogini, massage therapist, acupuncturist, sailor, and cook. Her art can be seen at the Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs.

Janet Messineo

has lived on the Vineyard since 1966 and has been fishing its shoreline for more than 30 years. She’s written for Reading the Water, New England Stripers, Offshore, On the Water, and The New York Times. Janet’s newest venture: Vineyard Surfcasters, provides personalized guided shore fishing charters.

Sam Decker

recently returned to the Island from central Mexico, where he wrote for a newspaper and worked on a novel. Sam now writes for The Martha’s Vineyard Times.

Elizabeth Cecil

is a photographer whose fine art is represented by Etherington Fine Art in Vineyard Haven. She teaches darkroom classes at MV Public Charter School. Elizabeth also photographs weddings and private events.

Michael Brisson

is in his 24th year as the chefowner of l’étoile restaurant in Edgartown. After getting his start in Rhode Island and at Chez Pierre on the Vineyard, he found his cooking voice in Boston, working at the renowned restaurants Café Budapest and L’espalier.

Alison Shaw

is a photographer whose work has graced eight books as well as numerous magazines and newspapers across the country. The Alison Shaw Gallery is in the Arts District of Oak Bluffs.

Genevieve Jacobs

is a registered nurse and self-taught artist. Her illustrations can be found in A Comprehensive Guide to Marine Medicine by Michael Jacobs and her other works at the Vineyard Artisan’s Festival any Sunday in July.

Nelson Bryant

is a twicewounded WW2 paratrooper, a carpenter, a cabinetmaker, a dock builder, and a writer. He was the editor of a New Hampshire daily for 14 years, and wrote an outdoors column for The New York Times for nearly four decades. Nelson now lurks in West Tisbury in his childhood home.