Heather John Fogarty, MFA, writes for publications such as Australian Vogue, Marie Claire, Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, C California Style, the Hollywood Reporter and Bon Appétit, where she was wine and spirits editor from 2004 - 2011.

Before joining Bon Appétit, she was senior style editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. As an editor, she has collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and New York Times bestselling authors. Fogarty has been a judge at numerous wine and chef competitions, served as a James Beard Restaurant Awards and IACP food writing judge and appears on TV and radio shows ranging from Hell’s Kitchen to NPR’s Morning Edition. She is a contributing essayist to the Joan Didion anthology Slouching Toward Los Angeles (Rare Bird Books, 2020) and California Dream State (Rizzoli, 2025)