Hi! My name is Ashley Linkletter I’m a writer and editor in Vancouver, Canada. I grew up in southeastern Ontario and graduated with a BA in English Language & Literature from Huron University College. I blame this description of watermelon, from Gerald Durrell’s “My Family and Other Animals,” for putting me on a path to food writing:
“Watermelons, their flesh as crisp and cool as pink snow, were formidable botanical cannonballs, each one big enough and heavy enough to obliterate a city. The green and black figs burst with the pressure of their sap, and in the pink splits the gold-green rose beetles sat dazed by the rich, never-ending largesse. Trees had been groaning with the weight of cherries, so that the orchards looked as though some great dragon had been slain among the trees, bespattering the leaves with scarlet and wine-red drops of blood.”
Gerald Durrell, “My Family and Other Animals”
In the past, I’ve worked as a library page, a lab assistant in a microbial testing facility, a dog walker, an invoicer, a quiz writer, a cheesemonger, and now as a professional writer and editor—a career I’ve been enjoying for over a decade.
When I’m not writing, I love cooking and listening to music (the theme of my personal blog Music With Dinner), going for long walks, continuing my yoga streak, and reading as much horror fiction as I can get my hands on.