A former food and wine writer and editor, Jill is the author of Finding Pete: Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam and For Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family.

Jill’s first job was in the administrative offices of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York State. She worked at an advertising agency and the Omniplex science museum, both in Oklahoma City; for the Jesus Seminar, a group of biblical scholars who challenged the New Testament gospels’ historical validity; in the marketing department of HarperCollins in San Francisco; and as a food and wine journalist based in California wine country.

Her liberal arts education includes a major in American Studies at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and a master’s degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

In 2014 the Stone Edge Farm Cookbook, a 372-page coffee table book written by John McReynolds and edited by Jill, won the prestigious Book of the Year award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the Julia Child Award for Best First Book.

Jill and her husband reside in Pasadena, California.

Photo: As the sun rises over the Jonata Winery estate vineyards in California’s Santa Ynez Valley, Jill Hunting gives life to the adage that being a writer sometimes looks a lot like staring out the window.