Brooke Jackson-Glidden

I’m Brooke, an Oregon-based reporter, editor, teacher, and connoisseur of half-sour pickles. My work has appeared in the Arizona Republic, the Boston Globe, Eater, and USA TODAY, among other publications. I was most recently the editor in chief of Portland Monthly and former editor of Eater Portland.

I regularly work as a contributing editor and freelance writer, and I’m a regular guest on City Cast Portland, among other podcasts and radio shows. I love to speak or lecture at writing conferences, judge culinary competitions, and chat with students in college classrooms (I taught a food writing class at Linfield University in 2024).

At the 2023 James Beard Media Awards, I won the Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award, a prize for a reporter who “engages readers through enterprising food and dining coverage, and whose work displays versatility in form.” And in 2025, within my first full year at Portland Monthly, we nabbed 10 City and Regional Magazine Association award nominations.