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, primarily covering food and beverage, travel, lifestyle, and art. 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.

I live in Portland’s St. Johns neighborhood with my Dutch boyfriend, his 10 bikes, and our two neurodivergent cats (and before you ask, yes, one of the cats has an Instagram).

More about me:

• I grew up on nine acres of forest outside Eugene, Oregon—within a mile of Japanese Breakfast frontwoman and Crying in H Mart author Michelle Zauner’s childhood home.

• When I was in college, I jumped out a window in pursuit of chicken nuggets.

• Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen once told me to “keep it together.”

• I was the first American journalist to interview Marie Kondo.

• I appeared on an episode of “House Hunters.”

• I was a first pass editor of Adulting author Kelly Williams Brown’s memoir, Easy Crafts for the Insane.

• I helped break the world record for the longest drag show, as a late-night emcee in a multi-day drag-a-thon.

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