Han­nah Howard is a writer and food expert who spent her for­ma­tive years in New York eat­ing, drink­ing, serv­ing, bar­tend­ing, cook­ing on a hot line, and flip­ping giant wheels of cheese in Man­hat­tan land­marks such as Picholine and Fair­way Mar­ket. She received her BA from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty in cre­ative writ­ing and anthro­pol­o­gy in 2009. She is cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing her MFA in cre­ative non­fic­tion at the Ben­ning­ton Writ­ing Sem­i­nars, where she is a recip­i­ent of the Lucy Gre­aly Schol­ar­ship. Her work has been pub­lished in New York mag­a­zine, VICE, and Self. She also men­tors women recov­er­ing from eat­ing dis­or­ders by help­ing them build hap­py, healthy rela­tion­ships with food and them­selves. She lives in New York City.