Featured IFBC Speaker: Author Kathleen Flinn

Kathleen Flinn is an award-winning author and journalist, best known for The New York Times best-selling memoir, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. Her acclaimed follow-up, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School, was named a 2012 Book of the Year by the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA). Her third book, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good, a multi-generational memoir of her quirky family’s culinary adventures in the Midwest was named a 2015 Notable Book by the Library of Michigan, and was a finalist in the IACP Cookbook Awards for literary writing, Goodreads Choice Awards and the Pacific Northwest Book Awards.

She serves on the board of trustees of The Culinary Trust, a national 5013c non-profit co-founded by Julia Child, and is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier. She founded the popular food writing curriculum Hungry for Words in 2006 and has elements of the coursework at more than a dozen writer’s conferences, universities and culinary schools. She lives in Seattle with her husband, Mike, and their rescue dog, Maddy.

Kathleen will lead the Hungry for Words: Journalism 101 for Food Bloggers writing session at this year's International Food Blogger Conference on Sunday, September 20.