With over 15 years' experience in the field, Hannah covers divergent beats, including food, wine, travel, politics, lifestyle, real estate, and parenting. Available for copywriting and branded work; recipe writing and development;
pitch-workshopping; product reviews; coaching; ghostwriting; proposal editing and writing; and developmental edits, her high-level print and digital content has appeared in a broad spectrum of notable publications, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, and The Wall Street Journal. A Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers and a graduate of the International Culinary Center, Hannah was a 2022 James Beard Award finalist for the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, a 2020 IACP Award finalist in the category of Narrative Beverage Writing With or Without Recipes, and a 2022 IACP Award finalist in the category of Narrative Beverage Writing With Recipes. Her 2021 Bon Appétit essay, “In My Childhood Kitchen, I Learned Both Fear and Love,” appears in the 2022 Best American Food Writing anthology, edited by Sohla El-Waylly. Hannah has traveled to 25 countries and currently lives in Boxford, Massachusetts with her husband, two sons, two dogs, and one Russian tortoise. Find her on BlueSky @hannahselinger.bsky.social, and on Instagram @druishamericanprincess, where she is verified with a blue check that she did not pay for.  Hannah is represented by Rick Richter and Caroline Marsiglia at Aevitas Creative Management. Her first book, Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly (Little, Brown, 2025), edited by Vivian Lee, has been described by The New York Times as a "mix of Joris-Karl Huysmans, M.F.K. Fisher, and Regina George ... a howling account ... a fundamentally kind and generous book."