Dianne Jacob is the author of Will Write for Food: Pursue Your passion and Bring Home the Dough Writing Recipes, Cookbooks, Blogs, and More.

Awards for her book include the Cordon D’Or International award for Best Literary Food Reference Book, the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best book in the USA in its category, and the Silver Nautilus award in the Creative Process category.

Dianne is co-author of two cookbooks with chef Craig Priebe: Grilled Pizzas & Piadinas; and The United States of Pizza. She is also the writer of a Time Inc. cookbook, The Good Pantry.

Previously a newspaper, magazine, and publishing company editor-in-chief, Dianne became a full-time writing coach, author, and freelance editor in 1996. She coaches writers across the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Asia on book proposals and writing and publishing books, freelance articles, and blogs. Some of the most prestigious book publishers in the US, including Chronicle Books; Clarkson Potter; Little, Brown & Co.; Ten Speed Press; Stewart, Tabori & Chang; WW Norton & Co., and William Morrow have published books by her clients. She also edits cookbook manuscripts for publishers and helps authors through the publishing process.

Her blog, Will Write for Food, covers food writing trends and technique, particularly in recipe writing and blogging. The New York Times, Publishers’ Weekly, Eater, BlogHer, and Food52 have linked to her posts. She started the blog in 2009.

Dianne has taught many classes on food writing, including at the Smithsonian Institute and UCLA’s Journalism Department. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. For five years she ran the annual Food Writing Symposium at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA. She has been a speaker and workshop leader at the Association of Food Journalists’ annual conference, at BlogHer and BlogHer Food, the International Food Blogger Conference, Food Bloggers of Canada, and at the International Association of Culinary Professionals’ annual conference. She was the keynote speaker at Eat.Drink.Blog, the Australian food blogger conference. She has taught writing workshops in Vancouver, London, and Dubai.

Dianne judges books for the James Beard Foundation and for the International Association of Culinary Professionals annual cookbook awards. She has also been a judge for the Bert Greene Award for Food Journalism. A feature she wrote about food blogs was a finalist for a Bert Greene award.

A published writer since 1975, Dianne has written for Lucky Peach, Writer’s Digest, Salon.com and the Ms. magazine blog, among others. She was the Joseph Hoare Gastronomic Writer in Residence for 2013 at the Stratford Chef’s School in Canada.
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