Bio

Jessica Hamlin was born and raised in Southern California and currently lives near Pasadena, a lively, sophisticated city that she falls more in love with every day.

Southern California’s diversity matches Jessica’s varied interests since she writes about everything from art to health.

Jessica has written for newspapers like Pasadena Weekly, Los Angeles Downtown News, and Beacon Media’s Pasadena Cosmopolitan and Arcadia, Monrovia, and Sierra Madre Weeklies. Magazine credits include Pasadena Magazine, ValleyLife, Arroyo Monthly and twentysomething. She also contributes to EAT: LA and wrote for “Thirsty? Los Angeles”, a local drinkery guidebook.

Jessica graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a B.A. in journalism and wrote for every section of APU’s newspaper, The Clause, as a staff writer for two years. Upon graduation, she earned the Outstanding Senior Award, given to one senior journalism student each year who exhibits exceptional skill and professionalism.

Since Jessica’s mother attended French cooking school with Josie LeBalch of Santa Monica’s Josie and later owned a bakery, it seemed Jessica was destined to become a foodie and write about cuisine.

Her father’s decades in the entertainment industry also took Jessica behind the scenes of television productions like The Academy Awards and made her a savvy, curious, and witty media consumer and writer.

She is constantly inspired by the people, places and topics she encounters and is eager to embark on more writing adventures.