Shelley Boettcher is an award-winning writer and editor who spent more than a decade working at the Calgary Herald. She holds a master’s degree in journalism and her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, including the New York Times, The Guardian, the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and Postmedia newspapers across Canada. The author of three wine books and the editor of The Knifenerd Guide to Japanese Knives, she is on Instagram @shelleyboettcher. She splits her time between Italy and Canada.