Hey, you found me! I’m Amie McGraham and I’m a writer who loves to cook.
I grew up on an island in Maine. After twenty years of wandering fjords in Norway and beaches in Southern California, I finally got a damn degree in English.
Inexplicably, I landed in the desert southwest, with a career in insurance sales and marketing. It wasn’t as fun as you might think.
A few years ago, I gave it all up to take care of my mom, a talented artist and writer who recently passed away from Alzheimer’s. And in the middle it all, I picked up a notebook and began to write.
Today, I write and share how the two worlds I inhabit—island and desert—have shaped my writing roots.
My essays on food and travel have won awards in literary publications, including HerStry and Intrepid Times. My writing has also appeared in Brevity, Short Reads, Portland Press Herald, Longridge Review, Maine Magazine, Exposition Review and various anthologies.
I write two newsletters: the micro mashup, weekly 100-word literary and art microbursts and Cook & Tell, the digital reboot of the foodletter my mother created 40 years ago, featuring vintage recipes, artwork and stories from a Maine island. When I’m not writing, you can find me in a kayak, on the trail, or out for a morning dog jog with my kids with tails.