Susan Pagani is a freelance writer and editor in Minneapolis. Her work has appeared in Civil Eats, East Bay Express, Heavy Table, Sierra Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sotheby's Artful Living and the San Antonio Express News, where she was food editor. She has also published nonfiction essays in Switchback and three collections, Literary Orphans, Minnesota Lunch, and The Secret Atlas of North Coast Food. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.